Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006e1897d26c4e8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-04-03 21:01:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: cc3599d20c6183ab9b07ebfe85b94282 SHA-1: 1b68c14636b8f889e222015223429f2134cca9bb SHA-256: 006e1897d26c4e8d9a6a942017ec8ed5b8ae69e51477df276f9d83cd8ffb5cbe
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URL and the heuristic firings related to link farms support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=alquimista+paulo+coelho+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pawomodom.medianewsonline.com/51771878622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/roturoda/eij0hdV/48721174569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muruwake/hSGMWQt/how_to_make_textview_bold_in_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gaxokakijefe/8hhhghT/screen_recorder_windows_10_free_download_no_watermark.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zanemulazif/jcSShjV/responsive_design_bootstrap_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xataruzepape/b4gg8m5/6852658222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/seriposuj/expert_report_hearsay_summary_judgment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://af431a04-9ebc-4ea4-a98d-45e4ffbfad14.filesusr.com/ugd/485053_2c1fd651dc2b4f32b88170f8af791dd7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://detuzexowo.epizy.com/kalejenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12f7643e-9106-4823-89c2-0bdaecd1bc22.filesusr.com/ugd/1f6d71_6ea5eae091c04e1c9eb702e59ee978ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bosolijivox.rf.gd/81457187595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4eff3ec4-d147-45d1-be73-876d9e1d0019.filesusr.com/ugd/efb3f0_a98300398f3240aea5fa5b3b758022e8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vefodipox.myartsonline.com/60522423867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://973697ad-ffa4-4f9d-85cd-0c9d1ea039ee.filesusr.com/ugd/5f5755_ab1a8bf779b047058448dcbc8ef43801.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39c1d623-eccb-4af0-a86a-15328a2d61f9.filesusr.com/ugd/3cb6cb_b4e2a2fb56a8481ea2c2b652476d6f18.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bigapenegig.atwebpages.com/jebuzabodelaludoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3745348a-78a0-42d7-8ff4-af2b45bf5faf.filesusr.com/ugd/02631b_f738bf505ea24c63a64c9ec465280ddd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/votubukaxogilix/idsa_guidelines_asymptomatic_uti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fovuvuk.rf.gd/80930249105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulagokonud.rf.gd/checkers_catalogue_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1a2149e7-ca7f-4e7c-a584-0e483de6f3af.filesusr.com/ugd/9219f8_a192e49fa10042ba97cbfad6a8b15078.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wegugoleta.onlinewebshop.net/big_data_processing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD12 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 7558cc293516f378305632b40689c2877fd219ee52c1eb631fd3ea642dd2860a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F57 22048 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa66e140d38166a6ebd7cd4812fa23252953846725890c89df38b0e90086b56