Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d96ceeb1db6817a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-03-31 03:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: de4fdc0d208aa0bf762c5091bbe66b45 SHA-1: ac98712f2d17f05ef4e8a2851a3ec6e731103a0d SHA-256: 6d96ceeb1db6817a3764cc514f69ebf4266d825da3a6c6d44abff96354933a0c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to link farms and redirectors, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate this assessment, classifying the file as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=cultural+anthropology+fieldwork+journal+2nd+edition+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lebereme/fhghawH/lathe_simulator_lite_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xaselavub/ibJthfp/alarm_clock_app_iphone_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wuwosexed/giIjjsq/foxone_special_missions_free_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nawakema/aqgeYig/sewewirawowupewizoburam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fefamuve/aMhiIhj/big_business_deluxe_happy_halloween.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xulawajikigi/S7WuhGY/wewopanodurozegokajigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452154/normal_5fdf7735b48b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noxisoture/jhuhhge/celebrity_pop_quiz_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lirerafi/fsgdheO/vutipilered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460058/normal_6052ceae89b43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d3826037-6016-486c-99e9-dc41bc666644.filesusr.com/ugd/b81754_81558ab93eb94d408db8d00b5c3d52f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8ed62699-7d02-4439-b935-4286882ef7d4.filesusr.com/ugd/229b11_05e2779bac49471292266a3417179496.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7c50ec62-1ece-451b-b03c-4788199016cf.filesusr.com/ugd/635f3c_6674fc539ab448b2b3d1f1f645b81165.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e29f0852-aa8c-4fc4-a5db-fcd144ab7086.filesusr.com/ugd/b730be_a37b8482a8f24524a91003b5b158bd01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ecfc1f44-6648-4072-bff5-6ee4adcfbe4f.filesusr.com/ugd/e5a943_600c76cde44540549ef032e952ecef18.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://34ec465e-51aa-4dba-9a8c-c05fcfb5ae84.filesusr.com/ugd/df15ee_687e637cd7ca4aef8baeaa929e7414c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/233a2464-cf62-4ab2-8f1f-d3afed203e22/usmc_bravo_uniform_inspection_checklist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de42d877-8c9d-46db-a9fb-f8e602d70376/how_to_disable_seatbelt_alarm_ford_ranger_2014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/858fd695-84ef-4da2-afff-b111a8eced52/mupotabaregipozifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9505ca4c-dfdc-4941-8fde-ded35496d0c9.filesusr.com/ugd/2097ab_a74df4adb24449d2b7756337617c01d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d070a131-beb1-48ed-a964-963ac0def2f6/jivevosovezosizowajonupi.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_off0000e7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E3 5496 bytes
SHA-256: b3a2e3d6b9ed70b822c63117a7d0772d707c276112457845ed853d2c1a7e17fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB2 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 7e98d0f4588800170acd057f559b960761c04db8eaf4b6022b8917c7d7282d3b