Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac6c944c5680351b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-03-17 04:22:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: eabee951cb5b2065d6509d5792ea274f SHA-1: 2f7c45bd65119a09cce753a144312961194951e2 SHA-256: ac6c944c5680351b05b81e6f656c3616d298c2089b48f174cd9272310276c450
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to search terms, further supporting the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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/award?keyword=abrsm+piano+grade+1+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rosififobagas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164218/9152398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepatokada.mypressonline.com/lopanebaledelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitiwopororotef.mypressonline.com/47629503045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wumaviki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874148/6170981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zofunubesosena.mypressonline.com/pikupawusugazizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexabefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384613/e0afd5cec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kegetisa.mygamesonline.org/dejusidufefipazapibepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panofokolonap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134483377/tapikapukapefigipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jibizixowaxen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135296653/8351841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nixitemolepof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134870129/5e7e1932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudebakafepi.mypressonline.com/ladoleraripugimijifipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e06e8306-d71e-4c92-aa1b-e8c52eeb44cb.filesusr.com/ugd/bc4951_da0c69fd24ee47d095b97343d7c02534.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wonanikapudidak.atwebpages.com/xitolukusewotuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ef733714-782c-48ea-8991-1bc0bf0c95f2.filesusr.com/ugd/ad2ade_284118a7052740d6bebcc7ff5e712e46.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://247e77cc-5367-4382-8586-7c5891409f42.filesusr.com/ugd/2dbf5a_8366097d1674436ba668a1bc91f7d6ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ddc7431-ff91-46e9-9708-195efd6cc195.filesusr.com/ugd/ffe0d3_ac887a26aec0479c9c78b9b6103f080c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7afcd0b8-98df-42a4-afe0-9544d44c9539.filesusr.com/ugd/74e9cf_7d27404ac1484dc1ac613c5bb10777b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73f4d879-981c-49fe-abc7-520f36a14a84.filesusr.com/ugd/b77b08_4105702011e449ab99f5b4b5d8fc27f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://89e5ed4a-33eb-42a6-b5f1-9fc07ea1e15b.filesusr.com/ugd/ff68bb_33bdd4bc33ac4f1fbe2504112118e88a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cccd2283-d272-450a-840b-6541230ebad2.filesusr.com/ugd/5de1df_52b76b8edd194e10bc808c210aa735c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ginowane.onlinewebshop.net/52411364260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba789de2-c385-43ee-b32d-a34c698d1993.filesusr.com/ugd/b7082a_e9a193823cab4043a4e971a803af9c68.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ede8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE8 3644 bytes
SHA-256: 1749cd9345006ed041bb019f7fcf14afdf525a9f38cc1be1b200c24375dd7d83
font_01_sfnt_off0000faeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEB 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 7103ec02c38221c58e0cdb5d4cae4a240e96d9dd4b44c5303d99da73400450a9
font_02_sfnt_off00010e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E88 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 83b5ede3678c4e56eeed87c7f62bd7adba8dd97a09f248c7cda561f2e569f8bb