Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f3d14c01c4af030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-03-23 15:23:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 8891b4c4b9bb964fb81c80144c50bae2 SHA-1: 0cc3eeeb98bdb8feb0ed4da94e27c30136781051 SHA-256: 6f3d14c01c4af0301e279d143bde304a1c2ca9d7dc98b0fa67661c5fd0544382
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=concise+physics+class+9+icse+solutions+chapter+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jomawutid/eKKjdia/zifibokokosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408584/normal_5fd2694e8ef22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomazotesi/heDih8P/game_center_apk_download_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanoposuj/jin5ijt/gacha_life_pictures_wolf_bad_girl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinupolureg/ijhBgch/36191824418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nimuxugemu/hbhhRfw/gexujufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385434/normal_6020a56468b75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372354/normal_603ab41837b48.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/muwomapotumugi/auto_tune_efx_3_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/957cb7a1-0018-406b-ae98-30c0c25cba64/29961075677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01e100c6-98e0-470a-92fd-1b71da02ce28/59127156594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9f2a6cc1-6e15-4467-beaa-57274ca996ed.filesusr.com/ugd/78f4c3_8616e7fdc4424d12888156e3c09db00e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52b03d57-94e3-497b-b2ee-5a576b8f136c.filesusr.com/ugd/67ae49_25c67a5fb26c4800ae5a82b3b9e663c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7007d998-8449-49b4-9270-fa7e1ed0d7df/baritukelamuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6da6da34-ada5-436a-93ae-8fe7c6e375e4/altec_lansing_boom_jacket_jolt_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4c0ed8c-3cd5-4d9b-9551-8a3c671ae71a/jonupakawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bifamomove/bekemozumuzufigufufupikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd9e6786-e41d-40b0-8db4-43df46c24304/caltrans_design_information_bulletin_88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0e098354-e5d1-4afc-9be7-763a70ae5e44.filesusr.com/ugd/ef253e_5a868a7c54354b8a8b13f6124677bc9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://083189c9-8220-4687-a375-57be19a37228.filesusr.com/ugd/909b15_9ddafb0a5fcc424386cfed7f94247914.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sebunuzu/59836567111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b3b332a-6fc4-45cd-a48d-19dee710fd2a/juboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02664c88-84e5-42fa-aae3-682d3a0d4328.filesusr.com/ugd/39d081_8fed94d709a0490f8ec2b70e81d84c23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d5654ba-348c-4cac-a292-fdb53d517f84/minn_kota_powerdrive_bt_45_spot_lock_micro.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_off00012d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6D 5348 bytes
SHA-256: c54f3209be1ec4d8aeab184c04d32b47d1cbfed3e1cc67ebcc356c82067d56ca
font_01_sfnt_off00013f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F8B 10500 bytes
SHA-256: f5b05de05e101befab0aa9f680b971ae7e84cb700cf141739176d9000319ac85
font_02_sfnt_off000163ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163AC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c