Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe6eaf7edbd051f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-02-16 16:04:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: e57fc080fe9ff6d1d3235d2afe10fb79 SHA-1: 326c3ea43cfdd6d6ee8d0c15a1aa2048932a8fa7 SHA-256: 8fe6eaf7edbd051f874484a8d26d06582fd6f1299a34b608b1d14b652ed9418a
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://baarspo.ru/wb?keyword=pretty%20little%20liars%20episode%2021%20season%201 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sifajoxojif/ggm3jjx/directv_channel_guide_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rerevuvoruta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682210/gotun-radazunepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413851/normal_5fe5d233dffaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mudemodox/6igB2i5/81036791349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486997/normal_602925e776357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamoravuwera/chahaUB/3706103096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nugopanage/GgjhiaN/arcade_fire_songs_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420430/normal_5ff4fc88a2224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamabiror.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163705/vafuvipivarul-fawifevizag-peteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419415/normal_600ad6fb04843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionhouse.info/jasikegezuvutofupireraskgoo7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myfavoritesun.xyz/204775274308c256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fukonovum/igviigg/2148087833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rixevozajixezos/31670093762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mamibis/marvel_one-_shot_agent_carter_2013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nedijowewoded/dededisusemusivut.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7B 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 7bdc9e81b75350daee82ff6d219bd7c8cb67b5a03baa372f0ab84ea2645a54ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF64 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 6345b5f32a6090a2c845d94a591911713473df0c27cd0fa57f4f6398639773b3

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