Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df8f815a3e930e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-04-01 14:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 9e61cf53e59f2a263c9b9398fb724470 SHA-1: a7200b85d74a9d8a97633f5f382e4637de4e048c SHA-256: 6df8f815a3e930e239f2653975e0b791b125614325ee988ad17322555f518d08
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute further malicious content to unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=antrenmanlarla+geometri+1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kavirozix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999962/1236646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifukimoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134357082/baef1f3716e2db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denasigetul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332190/2549445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zugufirit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163535/sikakuzuwer_jufuxadetugoz_xuvaguwewinabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukakiliratof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134768090/kanotid_gubefelola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidegobopoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815019/jamajuxokoxo-bavivek-legavizupovifa-bepuziditorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kobamebexog/hjihjRZ/ekko_guide_jungle_s8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bodujemep/gfixOpN/fopodefawulufodixanafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevugatumuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316863/medelodoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugurevupag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108952/raxodazoramuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mewixamok/02jiYDL/meaning_of_expanse_in_urdu_and_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mejapibidar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315264/rugigaduwapu-fegoviduwixu-raguxeto-xigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevowuzari.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/vipafuturozupuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suxawadukisefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713915/639864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawonidoza/gglhejc/scent_of_a_woman_speech_full_scene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zuzipogowita/gigdUjc/javog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://168d2a81-f750-40c6-a653-3787650f980d.filesusr.com/ugd/3bcfef_dc132a521be7497598179214c5ef8a4f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://814bd5e1-0b6f-40f8-b2e9-6ab0015c5eef.filesusr.com/ugd/cc77ff_12bc47d01ffb425ca1907a1ff911ef79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e02212b7-c8ec-4bf5-ba3e-d68a1de675e0.filesusr.com/ugd/7f1d73_dda5121a0e124c7eb50d1f511d697ab1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2cef1fd-0a9a-400b-b6d7-f8bb67957ef0/52801717793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1b291dc-aedd-421f-9c7d-2df3499aee69/hunter_xc_irrigation_controller_no_display.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6d251753-49d0-4f5b-a278-10ed1cacc9d0.filesusr.com/ugd/5c139a_189a4888ec5d46e6ac8adc033d3c1f7f.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_off0000cbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBEF 5224 bytes
SHA-256: de4570e094a534d87424f00332d04f57b3d9846be3041d30f57f693f4adf1e7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA4 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec9adb0c76540084f69adfb77452921c352e45d7908c32ea2f56c3de6eb3ac3