Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7486dd6cb4f20a77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 20:29:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 00dc18793eaa500f3096a9a66269d476 SHA-1: 3d3c1032cdd5bf83063cda374c37ea4de8096da8 SHA-256: 7486dd6cb4f20a77ae569064feb85078e062d8a2d49de4cd2fc7aeb44946c448
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://cdn.sqhk.co/leruwexikud/O6jcQVr/ball_thrower_for_dogs_amazon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/numokafas/eifgebD/phone_screen_recorder_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/surofowudula/dZJv5T4/shelter_in_place_nora_roberts_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bujomukoda/ifVf7hi/33896903100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojibuwe/bMjdRpT/battle_angel_1993_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakosemej.mypressonline.com/908152469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagapazu.scienceontheweb.net/rofero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wedegetuso/hheFgcr/kilotujigovojexajatusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zujadise.scienceontheweb.net/ganongs_review_of_medical_physiology_24th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vemetafije/9WXiiXq/17196726323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/4NO0L8wlyOA/wb?keyword=bissell%20spot%20clean%20professional%20targetPDF link annotation
    • https://2aa89031-56ac-4de1-b828-aabe99840ec8.filesusr.com/ugd/cf14a4_32120082d91c429190b357d6e6659be1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4569434c-a5ab-491d-9889-25edb5633002/cm_a_pulgadas_formula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0738a64b-c76d-4f15-8333-3417a23a0800/pablo_neruda_poemas_de_amor_en_espanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0591edfc-5f57-4c01-b481-ef46efb5c5a1/wisdom_of_crowds_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dae57379-2785-4108-a223-4562ecbfc22e.filesusr.com/ugd/87ad98_c3f72ddf48f44d76af0a123e13d48ecb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c27e6f3-7dc4-4610-afc6-11f0ca7cb780/24945699700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/419e3d0c-541c-40e1-a9e3-0eb9c8b47848/she_stoops_to_conquer_novel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d3826037-6016-486c-99e9-dc41bc666644.filesusr.com/ugd/b81754_c7ec66ad252848358b8e7611e17f335f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8dd9d3a0-4864-4f09-a02e-2283be9d465e/78143917236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a710b1c-85c5-4df8-9ba1-f30df934f12a/besitekaporifegewabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fec6f70b-33c7-4f0e-8e53-bcda427d2b3a/nisegajuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8b1d1a20-f0f3-43d5-aeb5-704ac988d6c7.filesusr.com/ugd/9dbc1d_d48a1e1c4258453f9762ff6ae633be2b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee6bc897-aa08-459d-b6e6-b1b1d69fcba1.filesusr.com/ugd/7ba596_097f12fcf0e640f08d4a89ab939d32fe.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_off0000f652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF652 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab4fe2cc468bdd483e0942950ce6ccf027e4b65cbfc1c9e3d6405c51269103c
font_01_sfnt_off00010837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10837 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 4248c36b26a5e949210d177dff128d124fab9351052639fd54a4d6068cd427f3