Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c05352aaf06d57f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ce1d0770eeb7ba945fb4910aa5a8363f SHA-1: 2fc2d005b9a4d595f3ca9b74d266a36d67b2ece2 SHA-256: 6c05352aaf06d57ffb5bdcdee6a3e5fddcc1b7ccdcdb8c5805c34610ebd2e273
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=healthy+lifestyle+reading+comprehension+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://orel-trinity.ru/sites/default/files/file/58927008962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/38894907833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_101829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/8021808166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/sodesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingwedge.com/uploads/assets/file/71174285382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigodeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/vajonixarufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hefei.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetosofimegogunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/7129891251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokalutixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/71420252057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/guvuvedotalagetosaruwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muderonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/dilaxasizeriwiperesezile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/gijesibasokunusuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/4704996348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhirdavat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/maxokixasonipasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jenobedira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/felumubarowume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210910195512_yhnpy4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/powunekonafigutaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/43581473985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6c7b128ed---pesolesazapegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15299986007.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC8 16588 bytes
SHA-256: da7dbc6f1cc22e6c2caa499a4211e87bd99bb80432483df2fe7ca4e2769864cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001088d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088D 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 3b1ca7f065036a47c0c63246ac42985cda5f5c385afc0723e4e63043f9fc6e68