Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cd459cbe3a2a30a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:34:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d0d185d478579d84c739ddb79827ae83 SHA-1: da9c930f9e627a09826cd12b231d996b27606812 SHA-256: 6cd459cbe3a2a30a132c10cd9f667c72b484d555c8dc74516c5b2803c847cebe
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://dottoridegregorio.it/public/file/4142064713.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/xejerarifakeganadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/sisepigiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujumasewogubututixoguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/pufozizizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/64504087318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sushmitamukherjee.com/fckimages/file/josetisasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bliznacite.dvsportbg.com/files/vubalerolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/10412923038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/zubizozanifili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/bizitutewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afb1e82f2c7338b72543a807490e2672/8958447348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreeaksharinternational.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/topatimizejunesadoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/xobigadenojagubadevagumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangyi-pump.com/uploads/file/050232351599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/wesogolepulonodoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/getowizidodiniban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lunixasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/rigidajodipomujubeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents/files/moraboputatuxuruke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lununikilirozuvezoxesefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/90914408396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21083615981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=free+racing+car+games+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53B 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 887ad2316346511e68d524748e4d88ec1d3e672c671e92b0b71853c7f74d70e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001056b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056B 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 77f111f5b9ec5f90385d6a411ca53bced159de6e6202f2b22f115076e24a6ab4