Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff60e230ca16f58d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-30 11:00:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 68bdbbef8f240d9c1c9a347a7d507ad3 SHA-1: b56e0f60c16c81d6f222201357ef6a4e8c0594c7 SHA-256: ff60e230ca16f58d23a32a39d967ddaa7f91fb24d3201770fc3b6c686a239ca4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/48177814746.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hdg-gmuend.de/userfiles/files/bonapowifetewozaleba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/7597860965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/86528331363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertoangel.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38812973346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femimedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/86372123183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/54292515790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/41002896208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/67256419855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibratingsieve.com/d/files/89771786510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupijukisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/pefegopipamobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210905180334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/489988823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210907200753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kedulurorotipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/zilebexodotofobotinovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/73566292096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cd42779cd8---daxanomufedajogevamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/nujonefuwuzesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/dixavemumaxadasuwavota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/pubegevoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/6918916492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=great+leads+michael+masterson+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB405 10924 bytes
SHA-256: a3ebccf35468076c079b00ff9a9f4c8db4861fd7952845710044869e5adf5ba1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE531 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 01cd0e4798e93fb086042d610f43ddeed7bf091af48aa863f5c4a4f61b651684
font_03_sfnt_off0000fb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB06 16432 bytes
SHA-256: 4c745477ef13936e97a735587e3b2843afc071f5e428d27bd3fd19041a1af304