Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6de8cac203f1412b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-05-18 21:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c2372ecf0242dca4d9599dd42af44ef8 SHA-1: 2056b4ae67124894b12e1d5773c635e565aed3a8 SHA-256: 6de8cac203f1412bab7e8cf475a0ddec465f60e7c59fd8c31cc687e7c8f048d1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO spam or phishing campaigns. The embedded URL and the heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicate a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=freemake+video+downloader+gold+pack+key PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492536/normal_6060fcd47a5e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386618/normal_60446cfbf4071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444092/normal_5fd2df0e25c61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474206/normal_600f0e44c550c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiduzejeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606953/kegigelelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380705/normal_5fce38a50b3e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagobizofenagex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767931/7d8e32d0017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagejenaxupiwig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134383440/rabibovafoziloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470221/normal_5ff5c2df2ea07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jizesemud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710762/gazejiso-zorujiwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kizevopizimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351298/5377157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383802/normal_600d711068f69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/genukopapovixo/93391154840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4aedadad-3953-4f3f-875c-5788a46a5ca4/cost_volume_profit_analysis_example_problem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/731094f9-aad1-4499-af54-38e06cc0ef93/jikafunugonopamupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f126978e-955b-4a8c-bc85-b9dce9a1b0fe/butuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mubefula/69343179201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/454a5fbc-a801-4760-a3a4-59261204fedd/starcraft_2_units_protoss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/74804958-12a6-4f62-887e-f4912a22e8da/project_management_professional_pmp_certification_exam_prep_boot_camp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/waduzirader/acha_telugula_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxojuxafopuv/xevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/goneduzum/16512516980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7533ad11-696a-433e-a2fa-2fe8704d887a/new_army_weapons_qualification_standards.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D7 5196 bytes
SHA-256: e4890c136765d40338da66a013331b8141ca0f56460b729d6951d44712d7c861
font_01_sfnt_off00010879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10879 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc69d47918b41de747a1de3f1ef529c68e61686de16ac0e31f4bb425c9aa092
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e