Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c3ec1ad45581555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-03-08 06:56:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3e9916c89295b1d3aa94893c477cfd61 SHA-1: a86fc42b5416ad1209cca98e1994612b8403a2c5 SHA-256: 6c3ec1ad455815553f8d0a8e87f6ed3083b3974bf3827a2a2155d1db199dbcd4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=was+the+great+society+good PDF link annotation
    • https://kutebebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134528954/b410e21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxusumupazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702932/monavokedono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jadufebifov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627690/b99aee3c54bb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jovanifapekiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739678/696982505a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewojomivatal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135345623/259d8be8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rujijixagav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383475/difem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derilezin.sportsontheweb.net/moondance_nightwish_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/numunenoji/laurentide_ice_sheet_river_drainage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojabupabavize.onlinewebshop.net/vanisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://padekapekalerel.rf.gd/12162601242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazofi/lavojobesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musarozopod.rf.gd/update_weather_report_in_kolkata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://144c9d4d-401b-437b-b89f-6a5816d7da47.filesusr.com/ugd/cd33f5_17adbd29903440e9be6dcfa96443e0f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zeworibuzoza/geputamifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinodinejepezoj.rf.gd/diferencia_entre_rslogix_5000_y_studio_5000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jakujakula/modern_digital_and_analog_communication_systems_international_4th_edition_solution_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e7f45dcf-1957-410e-85b1-216e85a225c4.filesusr.com/ugd/a2c2bc_aff15c5de8c541ff99fc3dc76fb1e4eb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lopitidelawexe.rf.gd/new_holland_tc30_salvage_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4c6480a9-ccec-4c20-853c-cc48681c44ad.filesusr.com/ugd/935adc_cb019aadedd848cbbd1423a26ef458d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://likijanima.epizy.com/broyden_method.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_off00014219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14219 5284 bytes
SHA-256: bfaf6a2802b1d89fa9a0c256db8b5ff26005990fdeaf8b05dd1ca48ca668ad52
font_01_sfnt_off00015421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15421 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 023298d909acdc9a239226eed92b22f3d3a8e200d1a82da91e3545e74bf28ac3

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