Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c6c1e629938674a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-02-12 18:47:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: ac161db10a95e61b69898686807f6487 SHA-1: b54bb98e6da06195c38df2e524cf0dac226ec244 SHA-256: 6c6c1e629938674a0c42489faa5676d08a0820c44c9414cdae2964b396ae0c43
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a 'remote-support tool lure' heuristic indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into installing potentially unwanted software. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', indicating it was likely generated by a tool rather than being a legitimate document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wb?keyword=cavaliers%20uniforms%20through%20the%20years PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/furafurume/Rzggshd/download_game_toca_kitchen_sushi_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mipemoku/hDih6hj/piano_keyboard_image_with_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://katopogovalasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135401177/digokub-mukanudaz-bomexug-losumolisezasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469841/normal_5ff4da74e7f00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijakonojimuw.iblogger.org/brown_plant_pot_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/viwiratoposu/bzY8J9o/44060360490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vitozogog/Lhau5xZ/73220013586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itawegan.space/liximisepawidilorerilaymib0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ludozenidi/hOLUAgj/81469047700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pogezasamu/huKjgbE/dixoruwitaporek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasazani/iaQGaa3/brave_frontier_2_global.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409998/normal_600514d93b3cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366031/normal_5fdd15bc8cde6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinetshq.xyz/shellac_nails_and_lashes19y7w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedsbadgeforms.com/xivitz12nh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369149/normal_5fc64376c2386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vepemetamat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134354227/vuroxupitik-jegavizoguziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firulozide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775295/soxajoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cashbackmoney.info/8337419059befvt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zomimek.epizy.com/jemipoxixekeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monuwuwotivonil.epizy.com/xumilibavifuzufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexaxezixolo.rf.gd/68325808965.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_off0000cf18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF18 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 201d1350122aca638be43618647e1d341bf0c4c38b3bddd909e99b886df0b085
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D5 9772 bytes
SHA-256: 92f800b641eae00fd39752b7fe9937185971aee5ac92ffc3e398089c1745c76d