Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cc0561eaee8c512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-03-02 19:09:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 1396d9fb2afa3da075cc1a921622ac65 SHA-1: 7a3a627aabd8142d3288f5d4ee61f9b8b8583d00 SHA-256: 6cc0561eaee8c512ff4e8af344cfdb2ebd4cbacf4be4f9d53842e51ec0277243
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'solution manual' and 'free', aligning with common lure tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=fundamentals+of+thermodynamics+9th+edition+solution+manual+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459337/normal_5ffe8df210cc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503279/normal_60181d03d70d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xufiwelak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164558/wutirufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kafunonedejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662894/6771872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366020/normal_5fd7c13a14265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haifaiv.ru/kms_activator_windows_10_enterprise4z9tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lefiletigej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597596/gapubojorek_somufumaj_wozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letotanuvimipe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598603/nelupir_vizike_mokalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketadamofexawun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349072/moxedug-lajolobagosoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telozigigozato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310186/499e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eu-study.ru/mht_cet_law_previous_year_question_papersifvs1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414161/normal_603040401a96a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erogan-encolumbia.site/88734789461vglk8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xemexavowud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857479/wotijegegorimejixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4530171/normal_5fe9b23e2081f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebokezuzak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318209/koweruxutoni_wakosagojesuk_wutelarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolusegixasuvar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770702/bekigefowefalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batuginuvitewaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134013132/9047400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxefalumigak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527234/dituzumixiber.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/legapatatezisa/wrong_luh_kel_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vobuturinivi/3263776518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leteraxewe/news_channel_website_templates_wordpress.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jixerubowi/23999629599.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_off0000fb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8E 5608 bytes
SHA-256: e75fca87320697a091573e6e5b5775282d74745c46d3d5b9544a11e3247d0c5f
font_01_sfnt_off00010e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E84 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 98dc5b5af4f110c42466d71f2d55b194b29a825ad27840df5b107d7024f78f77