Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6159bc8c276d22fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

181.9 KB Created: 2021-05-07 13:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 771c8f74c9447765a3a6fae2d1274ed9 SHA-1: b0ce68b819e80d5c29f6a6b6c60d4e7d843447ed SHA-256: 6159bc8c276d22fd0d86c5eb9a5a5a50051052e8eb45ab0bdc61fba0a9083f7e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=child+development+and+education+6th+edition+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://mipijipibax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873473/befevavuxodesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/linewebozid/iajjBji/audio_recorder_smart_voice_recorder_audio_editor_voice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dabekojov/xqgeljb/democracy_meaning_in_english_kannada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wofikubid/jhhj2Gd/walmart_weekly_ad_memphis_tn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kominalekawer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636772/08bbcc771463652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerazegizetikam.getenjoyment.net/71092335722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napufokotipo.getenjoyment.net/midipulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a781ac89-bda6-4869-89ce-e69010c13425/how_to_make_a_base_in_dayz_standalone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2aac2f3d-46df-4b6f-889d-180b4ea87f34/wipuzubiwisuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddd59a73-be73-4575-bd7b-2e5900175f8b.filesusr.com/ugd/5dc0ef_3d156408c3de4bc487ca6d8038aa591a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f07eb630-23ff-4298-a1df-d7940f1ba2dc.filesusr.com/ugd/097a5b_8c233f00f4dc45cfb2f9b96dff1d6e00.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fccd5518-64e1-462d-9dbe-8d8d8a19ca7a.filesusr.com/ugd/eb005d_c46a4a1d3140431d8f642159af22af92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7b4e975e-109f-4397-a679-93e438ff1453.filesusr.com/ugd/c33f71_7f3ff9ec098c4ea1a0f0380428a93c72.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d9395e1-5dbe-4ecd-93a7-92997be55c6f/how_do_you_record_accrued_salaries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://091a8774-b5bd-4fb7-8799-8d1ca0ca44ad.filesusr.com/ugd/8716ab_4997fe64e2ed483eb741e9f1ffd549bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/609c7ffc-dd20-4fe0-8465-6e172d602a25/6901536595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wavexijazibivat.myartsonline.com/tewopowatofevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a68e2ff5-bf17-48e3-82d4-ceb975b85758.filesusr.com/ugd/760101_b067ddaf9ac44e13b1d3efcb96013f10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8b83d164-5e56-46cc-b941-48f48810ddf3.filesusr.com/ugd/76ce43_0413ba81c85b46e991e3463a7945e942.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://85ed388a-52e0-4e79-9737-9d4b769dda71.filesusr.com/ugd/bb10c5_f8535edbdb5a46fbb722e7be5b7eb358.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e9ef0f1-4152-4931-a8ac-b3bbcfa2acd3/78456370094.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
    • 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_off000278a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x278A8 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 1d749441f55a036c941cfba9ef73f3d3a4a5249074777e0df7ad2cb50de03e3e
font_01_sfnt_off00028aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28AA6 13112 bytes
SHA-256: f5a4232e2dc314fbbf2abec8cfeb7486be39cfce62c54e7b148f6036a4922ffa
font_02_sfnt_off0002b450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B450 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330