Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd967e0e9be976d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-03-16 05:08:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2adf79006a7ef65ea310b2dbe9462ec6 SHA-1: d5274d7008e89e36bb6ca4c0cf4b8d45667de166 SHA-256: 6fd967e0e9be976d90aac80fa52d8aee1d1741e558664c5bc490ad477a4f184e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The document body appears to be malformed or truncated, providing no direct user-facing content.

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=jeppesen+private+pilot+kit In PDF document text
    • http://smallita.space/parasitologia_medica_tay_lara_gratisorcal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xurinuwame/ghCgjia/14364327240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuwufupi/0VXibhh/79511525709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanatoriy-izumrudny.ru/practical_machine_learning_tools_and_techniques_3rd_editionvu42k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stakingyfi.com/kigufirasugizukew2ip4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepagumal/eAigbd8/wetulojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onesmall.space/62150363384zxpeu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-sound.ru/fozapinipalalidujbj6ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e3e1c2aa-7f41-47b0-8c2f-d823cb48b857.filesusr.com/ugd/7598fa_d04a97cf02c24dd1b33e75e8d0c0c5b2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5e9816b5-e261-4a84-a5c7-594b6999e1c8.filesusr.com/ugd/eb2f7d_b58f5b8b68cf4577aace165b95e2aec9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e6e31949-ba74-43ae-8e0c-2243355e89fd.filesusr.com/ugd/69e259_4107584c258549f28a2945a04d8e3fff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb79ad55-22b5-4823-9538-35c71bbbd514.filesusr.com/ugd/ea423f_f3b4e5ee69ba427799fe497233f7d241.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebd73b9a-b255-48a5-b781-2bd84b483b4c.filesusr.com/ugd/956c05_0815138ee173434291cd6d40777594cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://587b455d-cc79-4428-8e80-a8b75ce23bca.filesusr.com/ugd/021ec8_93d2e118ee594f71a89781fbb96710bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aee666f7-65d2-4416-8089-42e5bd85255d.filesusr.com/ugd/c4036c_65eb9ea08fa64fc6a354e5e8b0455d93.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ff4d9611-e7ea-45f2-85d3-f0b464ef817f.filesusr.com/ugd/48f461_e8dba9e120724cb898ccdbdd2fa21da3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f9320ff-391d-49df-b192-c557e211a93c.filesusr.com/ugd/469aea_80a540b82b0548f7b8bdc5e95c7866f5.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_off0000d894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD894 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 2f14f347a9f377ae06d8fd78a05e324a2048370c5de43cce6486dccd88d67313
font_01_sfnt_off0000e967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE967 11704 bytes
SHA-256: 85c238a86adfd7ad45c4671da5905d39b62c49116236b4ce95682471908e297f