Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6905f06a63036cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.3 KB Created: 2021-01-06 20:07:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 818439d9242e5873fedead39e9b4b216 SHA-1: ec893f5c10ea4830c7bdd1c2268fb44533db2ed4 SHA-256: b6905f06a63036cdf4cb407f5b1356833be5839aea422a04a83373e15d2f342d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

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://trafffi.ru/aws?utm_term=esmeralda+guide+mobile+legends+reddit PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386079/normal_5fbf4c88a5aac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zosibikatojufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134382834/tewijuwolezarurezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kadezejuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134603763/bonaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://febukorev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134325382/kimepirulunuxikinave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/junuxuseg/jcwNibU/learn_to_use_lightroom_cc_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miwunukeje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524605/vubobetinezediwulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zinegekoxemajaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767253/pusifileges_rusejomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subokolabipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303028/4260563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366374/normal_5fa1ce247af04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/maxolavoweje/ghzJ0je/13381342192.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/nijosinizo/property_irregularity_report_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorifawuvawot/tumijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/suxugipipolazog/guvebexatane.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_off0000be7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7E 5244 bytes
SHA-256: f47467dffc7fbc2d7569aa1427a6f121b533ff5d27f86fffb58c618a5e3bff56
font_01_sfnt_off0000d036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD036 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 36aa543783d6306c8dd38d6b3a11585fa1882281b23037e63671234106a4c268