Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae98450fc0a4b1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-03-29 14:30:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 67be35395cac83cd3419d8320ab189c6 SHA-1: be77ade79a13bc1b9e0198ea0e9843dacd3b987e SHA-256: 6ae98450fc0a4b1aeefafdc243abe6295339cd3c6d54b9e58c54736bd923eef3
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=where+to+donate+furniture+for+pickup PDF link annotation
    • http://xagakojitogiva.getenjoyment.net/76426289626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/senagoxosog/hhgeahh/balloon_arch_tutorial_with_fishing_line.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liwavijej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134379327/80654582ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/negapevu/gjidiKT/23881511246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netewe8.xyz/93964589359bbv7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/D8ifij3/27208998277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomuzali/gdaNhax/evolutionary_theory_of_emotion_mcat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415946/normal_600adc2077646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wemonamo/e4gjjgV/fun2_2_player_games_at_home.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioit.space/rancilio_silvia_parts_listyaf8h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepexugoroba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134469665/ropijisizosoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378857/normal_602ae14c6dea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501231/normal_6052fc3917932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://disemiseses.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407045/5528026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxuvufunufake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874670/makazifivi_gumupupitiveka_vevikuta_sudunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391620/normal_604423acf231f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakirekugep.scienceontheweb.net/48678477948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/waterdeep_dragon_heist71fcr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475739/normal_6040790ede88a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esportzmlevent.com/92161373428l9z9i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aca9cefb-9234-4706-ad97-c58279ca3208/bill_nye_states_of_matter_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea4409f0-d1c9-426e-bb4d-17614dc2b496/vigoxebigejowanoluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/571dcb83-8e21-47a5-b6b8-0714f5086560/forex_trading_fundamental_analysis_books.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_off0000e360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE360 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 9b401ce4d9a2cebef01a9620d7dcb61dd5423cb04a8e1aae076f2152850a8d95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D3 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 83d4466814e85a0c2fddb221d488af6ba026a67956113e77324e9a97d1ba9cf4