Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f10eb668c7e65591…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-04-07 15:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fc4e9ec0032b8ef4bf403b85a09dfefc SHA-1: 08a1933ba6f2e18bae8aa8eab2b06668240b5a14 SHA-256: f10eb668c7e655914d06cb6143ffb33fe53aa9efd3e1b34f8efd847d4ef62f9d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this file as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=bubble+shooter+games+free++app PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485434/normal_602eb4da625ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutudixob.iblogger.org/why_does_my_netflix_keep_saying_network_error.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bugolajoxodu/ifijb6s/gazulabemilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xibidodoko/aPgiawd/fafovanagikefovera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365606/normal_600bdff0bd9bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372967/normal_5fd264b811742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b08ca4a-60fd-4f36-aee4-8c78857addea/miss_peregrine_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://44879a12-c10a-431c-a98a-7de142752d0f.filesusr.com/ugd/bb4607_23feacf9107b41ebbe7101adb4dfd956.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://04a9e765-cf69-4035-9b9a-998d8fb4e692.filesusr.com/ugd/8c5016_46423de9335f45649799ad6673523c6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2061f665-9309-41a6-981d-137229ee7e60.filesusr.com/ugd/eb2fe6_081a68c9ec914624a659b909006e6fc6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7a48fde5-f9d1-4ce4-84a2-8b156d245d18.filesusr.com/ugd/8127dd_b7edec36db164195af0bf935cd58d029.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kunaraxanoxun.epizy.com/que_significa_la_palabra_liderazgo_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_a12e2c0d10a2473fb62f384282c04bef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c83cbd6e-a134-4b49-ba12-49f24c654ad9.filesusr.com/ugd/904a8b_ea2cf4474d464c489b654d95178d0054.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a00b1ee1-8c4f-43db-b537-df3876325c43/15036694620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52c23278-dbd0-4213-97d7-b8cf74b84b5e/onn_radio_walkie_talkie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fccd5518-64e1-462d-9dbe-8d8d8a19ca7a.filesusr.com/ugd/eb005d_85842fd3ada940ea8a584fcda99f17f1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f0754e2-f0c4-47db-826b-83042027646c.filesusr.com/ugd/7a11b0_022b7c29eb3442189303be01387509dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89c335bc-60b1-4d13-8752-78d6e9a361ba/seviketatopizilunavim.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 5504 bytes
SHA-256: fc6c698479d878c166b2b09234f0b20fb4c03ee8024fbda960994dc7fc97f57f
font_01_sfnt_off00010dee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEE 11092 bytes
SHA-256: ae25af20314df5e806fd1fd43f861b4732cc578897b75f23edd747f85b826557