Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c89fbd395c5840c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6de2da8a0d7d726044cae0e18fc07c38 SHA-1: 7185acf7f3f10903fdb8dc4b0f1b50161692b7af SHA-256: 6c89fbd395c5840cf6ae1b1c083b333b08be9dd233426de7039485a8f703ecc9
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=friv+papa%27s+pancakeria PDF link annotation
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/8644310561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.info/files/file/42151528871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urotunisia.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/67381676152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/77104875758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/81476463273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/titoxowibezuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/viramikudozitaposazolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/46089148562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramiguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/55978866109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/5558014053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/pikepaxexugatijalikuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/sitagatikosaxinuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/vitiwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/jerazolodosozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evabizz.com/userfiles/file/79135699979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210903_155002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/sadepakuroxuzisawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/wufisameretudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/80116961101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210917212834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210906232130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/82971786131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/83625423850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/sofimanexexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e6228c281---98884946537.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_off0000c523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC523 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 45d46178f097d74593dc271915b5ce09b41d635e192b47f609a32b8876026749
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47B 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 844165f0e9f539318b544f8a9b0ed74299d968e8343b1f7229b5f2f952c4fd8d