Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce76141a2d521bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 5d3835995cd57094f6ee9f12a8af0aec SHA-1: dfc60562dfdf16dcad3093e779d635418bc87089 SHA-256: 6ce76141a2d521bf2f8c9e5b27bbdd4c2891d38f4befdc45f8377aa8609f01f5
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on unknown or suspicious domains, suggests a link farm or phishing attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute malicious links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313905a671a---gugewijewit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lechioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/sofanimokoponururebejufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/sepili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/vewosebidizonijabosugabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/350318675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/tolufimenanilomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/vulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/33637147360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/74153718155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/wusiduwebolifovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/zaxugoxezapuwelakibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/93410967250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60918116912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/sixoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/75344861948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowofotusufitijetukesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c41f2a055dc1b2739c967e5e0e78c9/zifojofebibuvenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/gomupevovudusufapotifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/21414979526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcimoveis.com/imgs/file/48028891610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/fubesazilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/kogozuxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/lakuzijikokogetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gta+4+apk+and+obb+file+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EF 17728 bytes
SHA-256: e822a36ecfb2c572a5f90e2232869d30085d613b0aee049db13ea61aba416e04
font_01_sfnt_off000111a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A9 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5233b69b87035c2daf40cb62717c2e5b088006d72c6b3f94251ea8e0f3c0828c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A07 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 211097b55cbf1985c25d6955e8b04dca157948ab56e2a5568b5bc4f37b63821b
font_03_sfnt_off0001424e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1