Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d85b4d2c7657e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-31 01:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 06cf22dfe95e450e923427977441d299 SHA-1: e1434c94e29d3f14691b65630aa6f2b8abefa336 SHA-256: 6d85b4d2c7657e5247b89d80ecfd423c4979d997343c14ded3dfe7c9ca09a71e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=design+process+in+architecture+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468820/normal_5ff89a8483987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464524/normal_5feb17efcb21e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1gusevshop.space/98715949247r5z7s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460057/normal_5fea293170ed5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alifan.store/blade_and_soul_taiwan_english_patch_2019s6k7v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23cba59c-135c-496b-8f47-c9bb38a584b0/81611887686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ecc71d6-7539-4d3b-9b88-3b3944572127/75627179979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3af331f0-1fa7-40a8-8c93-617182c9b097/zevanobufurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8316a071-1c81-4729-bbc9-bb84f51c1359.filesusr.com/ugd/b2ba6b_18050005b9f640fea202151d1b0f769e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/699e2e4c-159f-4838-a3a2-df44a7d0b96e/axxess_aswc-1_manual_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3c8164-ddd9-4522-8472-457ce31ece15.filesusr.com/ugd/d32f78_c07baa9718854880bd730c756fd9616c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokofapig/ziriwosabotusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39a93cc6-d281-42e3-b3d9-ec2ba3c3e926/tokyo_ghoul_season_4_storyline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/boduxatavepe/lukipini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7f5b04e-b247-49a4-9dc0-39f0c843ec09.filesusr.com/ugd/b56f86_b153e3fbf7b24f5e971c1abe11780c16.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be08d7d4-326a-4801-be9d-4496af17a43b.filesusr.com/ugd/d31907_6bc6e00828e44fb69dd9b72cf71a47d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0589101-abe1-4666-a982-0ab607017744/eddie_bauer_stroller_used.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5460f25c-1f11-4158-a0c7-0debfe977559/setaramuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ca0d70e-defa-400e-83c4-f2b8d5053316/cuanto_es_7_pies_en_centimetros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muvemasoxaji/razux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fe426b01-1dd0-498a-b08e-7ec37e320b94.filesusr.com/ugd/6b45f0_10fdefa133d44a5caba07f40054be26d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000ea1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1A 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 604c5414ace905d7356a2892b3de6016c67dbc65238827aaf6923993fd160666
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1B 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 1d00d68b48b3cd1ce5311cf264ce096c6802309970ff5602d3e7d2b0033a9d1c