Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd68e268e7a7865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cd54ddd264f28dbc2ec454beb16eff80 SHA-1: dc9abb5db3cf4f4906912192a47a42c04352b876 SHA-256: afd68e268e7a7865f5194025d007821b267b73bc34620a5db31e473a17acbdc9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/matenixosafawuronutawag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/15423920567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eea3f6c18c---tizumewebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93832174596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/49832564832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16451477794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibenjamin.com/userfiles/file/wozerero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/52007983082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/7282634920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwuxupage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161349321087e3---64751541871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/gibibisufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/nizalafebomeligadula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/56772075573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaroma.fr/upload/file/472776944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cultureresortpokhara.com/assets/userfiles/files/91147616533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/xumolovojupanunovuxerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/nemebebagimanubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmbarrenetxea.soinuenea.eus/files/galeria/files/zaxagotakijuzixifafizorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/migesoboguputodalofarunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/45295729280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73065080668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/38106816564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/pepimebogibujofofinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+like+games+for+android+freePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BC 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 1499def4dd2f763908d9bf6488c9c2e7da2a869afd5f6399f00f2383a94d5d88
font_02_sfnt_off00013202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13202 10828 bytes
SHA-256: ca595a8d98c99229965bc897380d929acc7ccb6dfbc4635edddb9412d77e549d