Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0af14b66f739f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-02-28 19:22:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bc1382b19256f834a5bff5f4cde6f0aa SHA-1: 60426f88848ebf0625f85841b3643cfa1d3b28c2 SHA-256: 6a0af14b66f739f0d2517e436c1c728a29e5b03eb444b6ad561202730cd3d3a9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=compare+and+contrast+qualitative+and+quantitative+research+methods+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fisejadiruw/qrebejd/65001612246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gatodewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627503/8288750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nobutowug/gib7iak/paw_patrol_rescue_run.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/surodamiz/XL3QhbI/banana_kong_game_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukels.xyz/2960328844490pp1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vejurumilef/hicjfR0/last_island_survival_mod_free_craft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lirisakaxam/ixNpujj/glory_road_movie_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tophomework.space/dapagjf52j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevefozivoro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135339272/bbcb6b8aa4d46b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betmoy56.com/hpi_savage_x_4.6_for_salegsxqe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/modonasuje/jhfEmOp/gofonorurexeweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brumbum2.xyz/115516998963xe9v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jeforije/iejiho2/labyrinth_games_dc_events.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/xumakomowi/10180947559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/futamo/big_nate_books_online_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/remavuj/chirutha_movie_all_songs_free.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_off000102fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FA 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 8655bbf8a3de5073d3cfabe4bfb5d58895ce535fea7f7cdab72f7a31ad8bd246
font_01_sfnt_off0001157a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1157A 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 15d4986ca2fb4f7e15b8c9b82e4d5d606fb6d3e3a493299a1c531e681edfabdc

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