Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d18360887d39f39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 17:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 65482171aaf6a3400daacfddcd3aabf8 SHA-1: c9c02911b79ff7056b94f8d4e7e3f45df388bdcc SHA-256: 6d18360887d39f39da2daf087367deddcba58a84359b5fcc87d0810a5bf2afab
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common phishing lure, likely using embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=best+companies+for+mechanical+engineers PDF link annotation
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/wufalegisubaraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/43522984403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazarafodijulelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zugofenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/xomufuxiruneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/53652339724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/28550604195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenstadt-apotheke.com/userfiles/file/fexoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covina.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/gusunibunisoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/xidasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodesizusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87670375904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/7306604320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/tixifizasubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/37901477358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/36074447160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/vomitunumatakerebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apismorava.eu/docs/77680030923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sineadstone.com/userfiles/file/5178233704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/gukedatufezuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e984f76d62---58396601869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikinuvifanonapugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/82343016114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/xedusoxokuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kastely-vacduka.hu/fileok/file/1275133391.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_off0000b483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB483 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 6df2d6f03f83cc121234c2ad96499abac747528b262d1db3562f2b1e5a4c4b6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E1 16500 bytes
SHA-256: fd9b10575d0132160dd5ccd27ade6197aa892fec114d9d93a3bf48feb0a348ae