Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e1a1b987056c5b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.5 KB Created: 2021-03-14 15:52:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9a8d54ff4a216892b84bcd8ab16d66f6 SHA-1: b163b8a3e23043245d27da51737f41029dbc7ca8 SHA-256: 6e1a1b987056c5b30aa8f33f6f7c5221a3ab49d4e930c7a402f8ff9ebc317678
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely related to spearphishing attachments designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://maypoin.ru/123?utm_term=hypertension+drugs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387711/normal_6032317cb9f1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fexaxotira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135401388/dudoxagekezebax_ragajin_zatubexenojon_tabekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kikolibub/dv0hid8/jevazatojenidirilopadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416806/normal_5fe279af79ca1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajinekud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135391411/6122141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376382/normal_6012a32c919b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarejazaxixosib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633098/6982351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467003/normal_5fe818f53b4a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moturalogupe/ge4vSuY/mn_energy_experts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370284/normal_6034991490aae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448735/normal_6014204f730f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381962/normal_602284eb9f1aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisomekoxow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326807/2c1b50655839f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406782/normal_60173465dc28c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novomuzedideb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406537/miden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392868/normal_60391eea0b9eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388062/normal_6035947d6e083.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/pilazi/nuzujape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wumodukubaru/kemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fukepez/espn_halftime_report_nfl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivala/69687870576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wixanarer/87794028602.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_off000174f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174F4 4912 bytes
SHA-256: b5758f4ae7f4b4f867574e5a8ca51318f86a399d11fee8b13cb5a60a099e4184
font_01_sfnt_off000185c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185C1 12812 bytes
SHA-256: 06d15fe38944c98a5dfa51461000560101f40f60715c67d95957d9ec1c5d8b72
font_02_sfnt_off0001ae5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE5A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e