Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a8195ad472e8e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-05 22:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e38ad4aae103f4f017cd3f488a1c0b6d SHA-1: e0e1993f9b3d8970442cf870ac61d3bb92e47b7d SHA-256: 6a8195ad472e8e0438361d29693673a37b80918ce3882d137629b37ecfebb4b4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for users searching for information on microorganisms. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+are+the+major+characteristics+of+microorganisms PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465145/normal_6014f58265858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489237/normal_5fd33786634f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448545/normal_5ff1113cf2c24.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8da23c7e-038d-4430-968b-9b4992fd485a/como_decorar_la_corona_de_adviento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zepadatoju.pbworks.com/f/acordes_de_teclado_cumbia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a387ea8-9e64-423e-b4e6-227f7069fd9b/23373950614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fee3b696-b4ca-4f64-a919-cf1310131ba8/16864720257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redelaw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144631854/quando_usar_onde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijegazoz.pbworks.com/f/lokajokawonubagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakebimutep.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144417756/how_to_know_what_size_your_gucci_belt_is.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wozixokumo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144433878/povekekugori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a7762e0-148f-4345-8691-9565e77aaacf/dikofekefunigopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b935a651-5f01-42d1-b9d3-cf92ca2ee155/61963381045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d473790-11bb-41a1-bd7c-854680dc9e4c/the_birds_are_singing_at_night_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapetipubi.pbworks.com/f/26071074048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0af37a50-61f9-4e7b-884a-855bafbaf1ec/sefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7648310-602a-4298-bf35-11f2c66dbb41/are_old_console_tvs_worth_anything.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2a21c43-c396-45fc-9892-95221371d525/ms_project_standard_2019_download_iso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/949b0c9e-5be6-438d-9b3f-f5e70a68992e/how_much_is_a_thermador_range.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACD 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 62a4ac54a770b8b470ec940c737bbe97a57212ba32546a810e6012c4dbe05422
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 10672 bytes
SHA-256: cb7a847ecee06f2618cfa4bbc6dea586418bd28fc8691fc8467614c2cbc9ae6c
font_02_sfnt_off00011080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11080 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3