Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a362dd9809db3d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 09bdcee20cc4ca70485de04c0c7b4065 SHA-1: dd71f1a4e652d0bfad871bfc53a296d76f0a43bb SHA-256: 6a362dd9809db3d56e1b747a4788e23e5d62ddd14f2cc455756e51432118e7e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute additional malicious files. The presence of many distinct hosts and disposable hosting indicators further supports this. The document body was unreadable, but the overall structure and heuristic findings point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7068

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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 http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/lamujilikuneruvera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/74945736633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/71286094919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/girisonerodonopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/83226062993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/wonojolupuxibodanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86231359623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb5fd89e637d68b2caf81ecfafda540/ruzusolofuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/fagarija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/wevamatunojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/kafotono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/manunosiropipuvojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/dilorazitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladna.pl/user_images/file/65531242746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/kupabawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51400477435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/57781645982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/tuwujebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxplus.in/images/contentimages/files/63691866194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/fawabuzitajefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/disobimepelefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/thriftstorewebsites.net/file/44706290237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/34349169947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/lisabimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=flix+tv+firestickPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dc41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC41 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 5174abc90837c241f7c1ecbdbcf298b65f5e714bdc4acbf3b59094e0e1c9f34f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001227d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227D 10180 bytes
SHA-256: bb954fe459435d2161399ee4d41e137affeae31633bec92f4cbb8f3b4fdc70f2