Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f41862f8c48bbcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-03-18 06:50:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3d861e9c1e1bc84f3f8e066aa1c74045 SHA-1: 71600d0693561026063f13fab21affea1a47931d SHA-256: 6f41862f8c48bbcfaf264452be31d1a554236e72e0f2ae7fc2c90b032092835a
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 domains and using UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=vishnu+sahasranamam+names+list+in+kannada+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xusozapovu/jciadzl/74142681032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naruxibe/hlihzNV/rubexuwilefusiwimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jovopomutulilo.medianewsonline.com/togatexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489257/normal_5ffd370d372a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xawobovuji/khia7sh/japinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/neratimo/jfdjhjc/fuxexetuwibigoladati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaparipajomigi.scienceontheweb.net/what_are_the_48_laws_of_power_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pigujoxexate/dgihgOM/tuxususetapadumepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nufomewo/3gi9jbM/tevogifilolisajonupilonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426066/normal_5fd630da65bbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384647/normal_600f2f7b0aab4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuvagezilavez.mygamesonline.org/waterloo_university_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojumisebu/ge5ifig/vefogulupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mazoviwovusi/fs49cja/jukonowonegijaxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligexekena.mywebcommunity.org/main_functions_of_central_bank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuxonewebuke/gikjjhj/rowubepimajapagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kenalutaxi/Hhgijc5/pevemijude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419857/normal_5fcf5fa1eefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liberum.sportsontheweb.net/5_love_languages_for_singles_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://0aa989e7-076c-475f-bc22-fff5ae310860.filesusr.com/ugd/b44be6_6aae26b2051d4b30bd7ea3b4ba3dad43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c01188fd-d8af-4b86-846b-090f7ecd58d8.filesusr.com/ugd/9058e5_f819b0168d16481c834d5cdd65384d9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9c380c0-3c9a-404e-8c76-a924832b335c.filesusr.com/ugd/9c8fb9_810f8bfefe6b43688ed79d232c45f6b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://53002a68-e35f-4167-ac88-1ab9777d7e72.filesusr.com/ugd/f5bc2a_60c5ac1afb734c5c93ade9a8ef5f7d44.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_off0000f5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A8 5312 bytes
SHA-256: dc9e9543310b8ddd30abb83c3703e2b4347255c786965ee21d993d2257fcf840
font_01_sfnt_off0001078e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078E 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 34b7dfd1d4349bc0d3c58ced69574748ecbf9917920448ed8e8994b1ac387a92