Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f88b216ab4934e63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 43aec6cc97c7fd7d6ca5efb6f1c724f0 SHA-1: f51d5e38bcfdaa8e88db313ebdd4eeb6dece6189 SHA-256: f88b216ab4934e6363b6948900ca15696c5d673f0f7f456e06918cca5cfc8231
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a link farm with numerous distinct hosts and a 'download button' lure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs, particularly those with 'utm_term' parameters, further support the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/57672250406.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202109101356163556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e11cb76977fd242239035037254cbd5/bekifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/luzebomafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/galonagasotitimedevoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzunlarpeynir.com/dursun/upload/files/79844272864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/5117446053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/82499706427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210902081432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/34627776436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/lasodoridazinakemobupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53335496470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/gaguviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/27979547508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/gizapeluranex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/69565428356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/14036462542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef310dfc98---mumaxiwaleferakuwelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/75385355421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22964627306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/kubumuxevevusesufarunejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56929249290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/vevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=papa%27s+hot+doggeria+hd+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000e5c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C8 18840 bytes
SHA-256: f92673d79879665d30a4e600b5aff8512701b9835303dbd31f3c4ecdc55864f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11695 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EAC 10884 bytes
SHA-256: a881524b569da5e0b2d590e9f2dab7e1dadd23da18db1c85a73b89fd2b84d800