Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6323bd2110f4f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3fdfd24cf4b6b4746f1aae873223e54b SHA-1: 26f34232185a2b70f5c1433111c0c7d7bde06e69 SHA-256: ce6323bd2110f4f730c4a6c64c47f63ccd8a5a2e5d2bc83bc472b464965f508a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external domains, many of which appear to be disposable or low-reputation hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for SEO purposes, likely to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a URL with 'download+apk+puffin+pro' suggests a lure to trick users into downloading something disguised as a legitimate application. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+apk+puffin+pro PDF link annotation
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexazubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/kutizisarosoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39gqvdblk6au7152ev35dl7adn/43917469037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/23586221551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/nosaxokitabazizupalidexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac1920d706---87205093111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/sokefuzosopixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavokofuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/xanizezebozivodimududuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/51154870733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/3104885984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/31908151012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tm-africa.com/beta/public/uploads/cms_filescms_files/puligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/93301214829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/xodofomesifedaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/masolidakexuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/72125092671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vuxagozojalesuvakofugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/16357484276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29332617321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69504855562.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://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_off0000be06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD618 20268 bytes
SHA-256: df42b2a5933a169b75cbb03875b94ceda427c764720fd4523e9eeb89faa3fcb4
font_02_sfnt_off00010a8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8D 10372 bytes
SHA-256: aac5eefee70f93aca89d8ff5365dd8b64942cc042314084310474f5aeb25adf2