Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff686fbb9edc354b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c5ebbaa2cb7ab732fef377f6a3f6f4f7 SHA-1: c0a53c5adaabbbd4bd3a86e464f17f9c99063449 SHA-256: ff686fbb9edc354b030a5341a12daf4445d8e829d3db054110df5a23da1c5353
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files on disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/donakubatamobakikon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/25876624616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/negemenezovitakexiwajemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f28597616fdb1729c6df6a52dad4d9/90446873630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantologie-deva.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/76837026028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58036726379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/xemiponiferekivafifizugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137760c136a2---87658643551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/21895240158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/78069594451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/73321193879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/36032043485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/63079800568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24333464130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/61031764281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/fudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83036662991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesnyc.com/uploads/file/36988584016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/valosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.com/userfiles/file/87236819746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/88874454951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.printsolutions.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/17383296222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wish-pharma.com/upload/files/bininudurawesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/zuriwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/lipivixigafurexara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/30200621524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+watch+anything+on+firestickPDF 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_off00011961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11961 10852 bytes
SHA-256: b35b62833172e995fb2302c4e2f18a606016df2a94bac4b3b35a30d058916000
font_01_sfnt_off0001327c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1327C 18864 bytes
SHA-256: 1d1d41fbb731c3645d9367606ac7c457f080ac66097b0fb0ec9a2e5f60526ffc
font_02_sfnt_off000163dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1