Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bd6cbbfb60e196e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-03-05 12:22:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: ca95670fd182ed842775f5639cd46073 SHA-1: 63020820c6205a83ae9c06a8178cf1d85fc56ad2 SHA-256: 5bd6cbbfb60e196eecc72b5681048eb06db5b23c005d05f38d6abef5e0bc439b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=introduccion+programacion+neurolinguistica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://it50save.info/tips_gold_for_koala_challengerlwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzixigadojaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316262/dodaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goxejebifebiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682819/5202531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsafak.com/pefamakunovufuxu0yp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punavuvipufov.sportsontheweb.net/the_peripheral_route_to_persuasion_define.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berebexamoleti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384136/e35fc49dd97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamoktin.ru/telavef0uqr3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirinevewafa.mypressonline.com/2010_chrysler_town_and_country_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mejofeva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681501/8936413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curvepreloved.com/historia_de_los_puentesnb0mw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotubobuwenapu.scienceontheweb.net/55354034464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedeberelaniku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136030724/9332969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rarubife.mygamesonline.org/65725834557.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/donarepemi/34807940002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowavelaxam/que_tipo_de_grupo_tnico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://441dbedc-201a-49d7-bb2a-292980023e2b.filesusr.com/ugd/473728_352124b47e7d4f30b503d6112deaa8ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://85fc0914-20e3-4f1c-be8c-de7e6f89f47e.filesusr.com/ugd/a44510_55d71e005f714d1fae5518097c19c2f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/moduxanakuri/zixaxosovuvajusobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4add3207-4e72-426e-9aa5-571a892e7d93/real_estate_certification_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bebbf8ea-a461-445d-8abe-1fc750b23650/why_is_my_keurig_leaking_water_from_the_bottom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a69a0dc4-578e-4f16-bcb7-bf03f6041b3e/43946628624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://238a82c5-85a8-4641-a991-2f0f5270ddc4.filesusr.com/ugd/63f22d_6f6c03e5c970482087603538f230cc17.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ruzumeb/western_digital_my_cloud_mirror_gen_2_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbcd8853-1e61-42bb-bd2f-9e3064273d01/how_to_install_luxpro_psp511.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_off000102a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A6 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 18a7e3af50206fa15ab47a5155b1da6edc0345b7e7a7da7945e9a5d7af71a184
font_01_sfnt_off000114f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F8 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 37199c4b7e6f1b53886982ef3ac86f9c3617b8e1a7da3f1a95cd411643991eab