Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab566888856ac8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ab1482b672ddeabba039bca39bc5a18d SHA-1: 9471393ae401cdc013a24768f05823a267b87388 SHA-256: fab566888856ac8f7a4daa80cae8e6907ff8c4fc57fd7292e6ecccc3cd1eba14
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDF files across various domains. The presence of many embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a campaign focused on SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/fewuxotinodisugujagane.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/30907223235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/8769380051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/kunulolupawudapomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/50880002786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52663681240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/15416163796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/kedoletekezedewelewejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/bexaxeleroxojaporapiwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/nitufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/musesilukavizodokukopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/1577202012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/lifamaketedalifogixunaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96237156613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunojovisokemazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140763db728e---90212186201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janaturismointegrato.com/uploads/file/2454007279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/pajopajemomitolabafuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109180751126807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/kukegopidegixivisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuwedupibofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/66171046360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lasallelille.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77701049226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/xenoxamafagubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=nintendo+switch+launcher+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dc2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2E 18672 bytes
SHA-256: f160bc6b0724eb27bc5fe8e502ad58c1391e045ad7547ec29e132c81d2e6512f
font_01_sfnt_off00010ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCF 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 1413a817f6ff0198a0719329e5167e19c324fb65bd6e9d878f4f3ff0cac0a7d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12577 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1