Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffb36475613f0112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 73d3de2b9312b4542455b2d61491bd1c SHA-1: da8251f0b2bb2c867c506cf2682a277411170ca3 SHA-256: ffb36475613f011265c7154d716eafd50c515198e57469c7115777413f1d097c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. Multiple embedded URLs point to PDFs on various domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/bekovux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/41494165472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5fd75c6b5---tivugetivopusosoruwuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/movasugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/82139076911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altsovmun.ru/userfiles/file/96650395736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/63798426709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/59951401358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xazovizirunekukanonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/72699368769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/99818295384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wodutadawonogapopukojisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/gumutuwipatareroduxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/31388410366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/sivane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunicorn.hu/userfiles/file/pafibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rileyillustration.com/images/agency/files/98718238417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/90999091966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinpayflow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamifomugakawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/surideganixiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yung-shun.com/userfiles/file/lidifiviwelisivozedijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/nuvumodadujikasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613040dfc873d---dotofikinomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1908468018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=calories+chart+in+marathi+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB23D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA54 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 2a0cb2266d60c5792c13c272da887d5ceb095ef892d079249460ce2211f805be
font_02_sfnt_off0000e366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE366 14204 bytes
SHA-256: a936079a41161cd96617fe2defb74d7188d460f6eb519c59dc5dc9be03b97db3