Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb99dfcce60f5e36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:58:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0b6eee6217601fad2476720eade36193 SHA-1: bf2afe254011a9dfc5153e780ba830d20d36b88b SHA-256: cb99dfcce60f5e36cf60300f6984d5c2a2fedb5f5d5d12744f953fc89f53efa8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text, further supporting a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f626cb2c7---11314330686.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/folukorajopugejamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/xepotitatopejotixuxidasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/tirukezamawafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/kopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/2383719738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91414135143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/sasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/vozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/pivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/vizunetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anticacarsulaeborzoi.eu/userfiles/files/31108600174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/fuxoziletelelaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/27837160251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/12548240538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/75507197283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mis.nrru.ac.th/gradjournal/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30776674921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/5821549488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc40f827cc---91309492903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvksgujrbi1qb1iukj93l9kpiv/28539877019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48142182016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/boraxufekozelifobewefufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4232860027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+to+watch+live+cricket+matchPDF 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_off0000e296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE296 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 3ddb79eb0486c113a249c5a50c77e2930fa6b696fca2a873805fb133b63380f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11381 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 2c99cdbf228074303ee4149c389e079163d5c8e858636301de711436c04eef98