Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aad7db705cd75d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 02:10:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: ed02bba4ff8bfc3a4b8303b105849e61 SHA-1: ee58353357792c11becb5781db5144564fa9b7f9 SHA-256: 6aad7db705cd75d0e7138837c289857b08300c7df5a5cde72bbd55cbdc9f53a3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://botokaw.ru/aws?utm_term=what+are+the+challenges+facing+higher+education+today PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tijatabov/yjb0jez/20333644620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegexexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134385137/rakukopasuj_gosezigefofib_dopugavugeto_lujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/risenulowo/2giiecu/sitepufipudizikivofumizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobalexaxikut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892204/9f65dfb77b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woruranevulabiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096732/togam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirusulixozome.scienceontheweb.net/79378060746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/reromiwo/qh8Vjg2/chicken_gorgonzola_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/filodomazora/nDhcieZ/sibofovoxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nojedajoze/hghhhQD/12032405920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xemokajoled.medianewsonline.com/how_to_reset_a_holmes_humidifier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465935/normal_603afb351116f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/veletafi/cjgdigY/genoriwajuvujavibave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vazitafolozif.22web.org/97848482997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380854/normal_6045d7a4604e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385850/normal_6010f7fb984b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sezokifor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596047/wusobetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wizomokupelew.iblogger.org/soxefebusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutifikidejuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347692/dumumugulej-mevolunuk-mewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464539/normal_6042f027efb3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/genonitag/iia4jgA/marshmello_wallpaper_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwademepekipil.epizy.com/17033396017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumatomesanore.rf.gd/public_speaking_tips_for_students_funny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogokenum.onlinewebshop.net/nios_class_12_psychology_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wobadumiravolu.atwebpages.com/63887749364.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_off0000f1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FC 5400 bytes
SHA-256: d0d5eb82a7fc742c3757b4718eefce156258a01201be052fba25dace01241866
font_01_sfnt_off00010463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10463 10772 bytes
SHA-256: c30eb56aeac7432afa569c84a2d334a589cb2de2c43cba053dc886cba0a7b3df