Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6926ac55a8da3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 22:57:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 8a631d897bb459406fdcf4bb42871e65 SHA-1: 8d6e48cf5ef995277c343e953f846deab64a05ae SHA-256: 6a6926ac55a8da3ce033d5e42a972222b18561ba8a0f032b9e464519b3b3607f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'Cae exam pdf' and application metadata, indicating a lure to attract users searching for exam-related materials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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=cae+exam+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puzusagilem/jkO9uji/66281584700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486778/normal_605841867b460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_601b78dd9a963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaminaworite.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636744/e7e23b290421e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedomafub/higAKhd/pixel_art_tool_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxagigotitij.66ghz.com/nedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitoluvumoroge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762666/15d93a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417983/normal_5fcc61c55f4ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383452/normal_60583edbb0c97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pugepavofu/mv0jigf/38712270385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudanivaxaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497940/4203e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gapevusa/jigf8ji/manually_activate_office_2010_kms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vutepunuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637517/kisulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417806/normal_5fe0a6c4a3505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/javeduner/ibqNkWA/bafufagasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tenotitur/Njb3sjb/jajovumogufujexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2efabd41-1f95-43d0-8245-5f8eb9267247.filesusr.com/ugd/2f4ddf_9ddf1704832f402497f01a07338ecf0d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xugivikiseb.rf.gd/catlogo_eudora_agosto_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8ab1a2d5-e5b1-44c5-a28c-e09959565f0d.filesusr.com/ugd/eb712c_451f96b15e19498db19c1dc231324725.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8acf0fc4-2da8-4686-9788-d7840b5449fc.filesusr.com/ugd/fab691_b74db722b3184f0e8a928456bcc08e1c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://segixiw.epizy.com/47968644286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fozuzize.rf.gd/77606724383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31e64076-56b3-4e53-9780-179364fbad2f.filesusr.com/ugd/d8d3cb_b4c2ce12b05247918d3c265cb2c4dcbf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://858e1da1-ad31-4e5b-aec0-89c59c6c71f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6240f8_590ab4e2b00446c2b878a6c4c39d3ff0.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF548 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 0d4a0a9c69395057c7decadd7412230e954da33ce62af1c8279dd27f7a99cbf7
font_01_sfnt_off000105c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C2 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 53afa4aef0c2db37e0140b1ca7fabf68e21c938ac0e91605b7585b824c485a40