Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0d729d3ec7ef78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-02-19 10:43:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 638c13a04da15c95360bc7e57e62a55a SHA-1: aa1bdb78a9308b5bd6e32ff5ea78627e76a1d354 SHA-256: 6f0d729d3ec7ef78af6fdd38c925e0fb8398f2138fd0c86efc8678ddb493f0bc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that redirect to other PDF files or potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple disposable hosting domains and UTM parameters suggests a phishing or spam campaign aimed at driving traffic to malicious sites.

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=optiplex+gx620+drivers+windows+xp PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kezinujus/wJgdbrM/juzuruxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pubisifibuj/lghjhje/best_blade_irons_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426957/normal_5fca95e45240c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vimerokil/fEpibhc/free_full_action_drama_movies_on_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476925/normal_5fd7c154c15e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451567/normal_5fdec9e2cd7f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zisubiziwu/jjgihjj/35370964326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4530036/normal_5fd06f1b5da51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zimopaji/nDgizic/xofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ronurakegilapoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852428/11d83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bavozazav/Aokdghe/jump_over_the_moon_brain_puzzle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitegevom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134664280/295de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revugegan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134682990/vikuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445532/normal_5fc9c8d5282d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460465/normal_5fdb8e88a980c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piworanup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681558/vaxurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jerivudofin/cdgjNzN/gristmill_kid_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369771/normal_602598927a58f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lexoxuxoluvi/hdjdhfu/xegoxolinonusuzama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fowowudajij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312379/1355926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58B 5592 bytes
SHA-256: fca5641237a018c4feabcb6558dd13027b892aa3a5d534f7aed45fef79a02a99
font_01_sfnt_off000108c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C5 12704 bytes
SHA-256: c49ff46688e8227de6078fe36fa344f4e557001df84559eff3686c4a29f15289