Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6ec114091bf241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-01-17 03:00:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 95aa191fdae54921272e8d8833731f23 SHA-1: ec82d405d63cbb3f100fe343c482e753abde6ec3 SHA-256: 6a6ec114091bf2419c7e14b38f890df49860e39fc7b88027dadd99465024fa26
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead the user to a site that exploits urgency lures. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into clicking links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://traffset.ru/123?utm_term=a+visitor+from+another+world+mhw+tips PDF link annotation
    • https://site-1174504.mozfiles.com/files/1174504/face_shape_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumizajasaliso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598274/2603709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zotevokep/jeAijNJ/fisefizamajober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatitabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134757356/sebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lumixiwutetus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134388296/lajebufileparox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168486.mozfiles.com/files/1168486/gatonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1175916.mozfiles.com/files/1175916/boku_no_pico_de_gallo_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1166687.mozfiles.com/files/1166687/zorubogavulutogorelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481417/normal_5fe50b4479767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xogiwudib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134715522/dezewexos_bozedulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1181045.mozfiles.com/files/1181045/reuters_us_news_twitter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365540/normal_5ff05e0aefe81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59D 5208 bytes
SHA-256: f924571cf7b841f87785c841fd66b3bc6ac4bbb99c16edbe4dd66c5ddbc341c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE730 11992 bytes
SHA-256: 16d8438509c262dc066f149379ce45d4b34a184b54bd73c44833a8b5e6d3c5e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E45 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2
font_03_sfnt_off0001230c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f