Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ad721ef39dcec81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-27 16:02:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 6efa319357f2d4a2047f2b9f48ebf352 SHA-1: 9cb0c4de46c16dbfab313f41724434a6e198b5d0 SHA-256: 6ad721ef39dcec81b6312884e41e77f994055c7f087e40c26889f93295412b2f
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 and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host many links on low-reputation sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging spearphishing as an initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=advanced+ms+excel+syllabus+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://toreret.scienceontheweb.net/general_characteristics_of_archaebacteria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawesoja.sportsontheweb.net/cadence_allegro_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wevejabunom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406075/9674987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witaxolexigabi.mywebcommunity.org/the_spectacular_now_pelcula_completa_en_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukijuwevo.getenjoyment.net/dofijitonizuweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanolenka.xyz/lasani_lamination_sheet_coloursnsd1z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filalodov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134673241/vezipoxori-sitifudo-lezomowi-titometoguvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodutofafedabaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452959/5020672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jojazinex.mygamesonline.org/alienated_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goproits.com/vuleka42v1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasezatoxefu.mygamesonline.org/66978654694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zijixiteluwek.scienceontheweb.net/lofezeluzajozarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamasolesodaj.mypressonline.com/adventurers_wanted_book_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafowitowa.medianewsonline.com/fofitovamavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wamatawavejaku.rf.gd/xejumikugetedifizudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zokivobadid.rf.gd/baltimore_catechism_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04836f1a-a194-4caf-b4fc-71739fa90833/adobe_premiere_pro_app_free_download_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f11317fd-d352-45de-bcfa-0ab936fde4b9/manual_de_organizacion_dgeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xurolawewetaw.epizy.com/medical_terminology_abbreviations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4662b961-35b2-45bd-bfcb-98774b26bdc4/concept_1_area_of_composite_shapes_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebodixo.epizy.com/puwedefiwovutuvawalozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4a4a1a7-7870-4888-a212-0a9aa78186a6/kufekofole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5be6dd5a-af47-46a7-850a-08a85c724f9e/is_motorola_sb6141_compatible_with_xfinity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pisofobemiwunek.rf.gd/joleturorubolijib.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_off0000f025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF025 5564 bytes
SHA-256: c419194f05ef49636ee5f107f2813d64738471db3ef002a0e28db33d007de5da
font_01_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 37c48b966694f6df7b52b5c77d81ba969c928adb62e80fa8594418ce34433b09