Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e58b8c740cdf0ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-04-02 21:59:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: a16b682454dc3556244f98a7c8322525 SHA-1: e6463222d43e0985a3d3e553481342f9ec3b765a SHA-256: 6e58b8c740cdf0add0cf9f5944b72b0675a6363de20ef942c001dcb86578e253
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to telescope reviews, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=galileo+800x60+refracting+telescope+reviews PDF link annotation
    • https://ditixalopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410538/9530970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wimelavejitovuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597731/a6656ff7c02afce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaxifojuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351184/3557574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468838/normal_605c65e46ba2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talunijepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599753/a75c35a01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467915/normal_5fd13b1d6afad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutolobod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108863/susuwesuvexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455883/normal_5ffbe07a5ee77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454811/normal_605c6cb6f27ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388427/normal_601658e24ce15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawajutexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108687/sezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gileledera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874536/jonabosusip_fotofuxawo_fuxoneso.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://af0fe010-594a-4ec7-a26b-e2d78e33490d.filesusr.com/ugd/7d2910_dc0864b46d6a44028188cb472e384f56.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a9595a0-71d2-4f00-8439-86c8b9f329ef/tilebifago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0c6b7a74-1ca0-41da-943c-c268a208a416.filesusr.com/ugd/fef373_116829ebfb0844479891ef9839458b4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16f6d7-285b-4488-bf07-d3e24ac90e20.filesusr.com/ugd/417718_c6eae9e8d9ec4fb7a44a4bfaf27733b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e0532ab-f311-4cfd-988c-43dbb905a638/16434980847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0919a449-7eb6-4729-8db5-b5f02d94541d/46099250592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d896c2b7-539c-4146-aa8a-b39d26e096d8.filesusr.com/ugd/a98ecc_3a8422d52a014f61aaa9d8f8cffee59c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99ca8c4d-3421-4a60-b4cc-61a9fd49cfcf/personal_pronoun_worksheet_for_grade_2.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_off0000e681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE681 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 163728fab89738ad6ac1820f13b498d6117e1b3f8cbac795ee5e2b2606259ebf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA13 11764 bytes
SHA-256: 2f2fc844f8d6900d052bbbb7ac9e6cdf0396ce982580a151f21b2699f1b10db1
font_02_sfnt_off000121ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121EE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71