Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfb0e883530aafa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-02-16 00:10:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 36635fdab31bafe8b865d43865279f80 SHA-1: b3b676fde5b9a28aa96dff9793c633155085f61d SHA-256: bfb0e883530aafa3287bdbbc689b0c2b6cb0392a65c6c9495b2e9567b2608890
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to suspicious domains, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags the document as a link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://maypoin.ru/wix?keyword=cleanmymac+3+activation+number+facebook PDF link annotation
    • http://reactivascotia2020.com/answer_the_question_and_earn_money_appu130b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dress-russia.ru/xorovonewaxy08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igme.site/rulapidasowokufeg1is5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofitokibifezaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394855/5657922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kifuzopeko/euDjdnK/kunajivopoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopmzm.site/lucky_for_life_nc_past_winning_numbersumzl3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xixusumer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814933/dosaz-gozube-gomamela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surigogalabilix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961506/ragagubijajazik_melorazobexinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durosokikiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379956/4d1c4d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masalev.ru/sezuxexewisopaforipotth5qe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupapuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726568/86e47f79833c56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/penumbra_overture_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC4 5284 bytes
SHA-256: b62875c42b6650d6625eead82a264d0f71cd04158863d5a716f4f781e5bca993
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C0 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 3b75bd5eb522ffbc18eddc44bb54fe54efb5f520b385f3b8a38ff2ce8980cb89
font_02_sfnt_off0001047e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c