Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 612a0a6a678de46a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 98a58d75c30a2a8ce1896e1699a98af3 SHA-1: 7791343ba66b7835935d4d564441ccb9c7f9c159 SHA-256: 612a0a6a678de46ae79861df0e16e874efe2d341f2bdaee9e77c30088a351f99
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to trick the user into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+getcontact+premium+mod+apk+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://alwaysthesame.pt/site/upload/file/18924215821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirekamibogudozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/napamabexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/bebirazixomaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202109021105375268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/fawami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/37301107269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/wunigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/91318741886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133520cdbd77---66522082632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zubepikediwazosufutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/xobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361663ce978---jazajiwejobekazimepukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazdynumokykla.lt/userfiles/file/95563021732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38480154166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/25504006474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/kibiwasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/78562889295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/88516603385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/xatekamazogoxaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewexajemurowugerukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/mipofizojanijakitinivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/78399583282.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://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_off0000d4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4CF 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 4cb0ca251033052854b5fe516a92df343d16f441ffdf40912206b320241e0a13
font_01_sfnt_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA4 11208 bytes
SHA-256: d4745a01793d2c2ee1464f6dc6219a968c11344ca99ceca412dd84fbf384c1d7