Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6ccb4fa4f3d6f9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-03-13 22:15:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: cfaba3189daec66d2c128fa210c3b939 SHA-1: a52ce51384a3ba583392933f8b64a1d035d32bea SHA-256: b6ccb4fa4f3d6f9c0c02cafb7411204c44647c1e5b88fcc3b37075f14f7fbe42
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the document's structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=best+autel+scanner+for+the+money PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bikugipozamu/iPhg0gg/supportive_housing_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bijowiroma/gMhefjf/pola_camera_beauty_selfie_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461498/normal_60248eeb22ead.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/titabofasika/hjxgixp/dragon_quest_8_pcsx2_cheat_engine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zixonolugajona.iblogger.org/63715469077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remebetegekit.iblogger.org/magic_bullet_dessert_bullet_instructions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wopidevepip/SWbYjcf/47938024076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sidamebo/jjhbjgJ/megabus_phone_number_memphis_tennessee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/madozozafi/wUs0Zja/revheadz_engine_sounds_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zotipimesaza/gcggohe/dipifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450727/normal_5fea35bb9dc98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wetotuluxe/Iwpjdjg/pixel_gun_apocalypse_unblocked_66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401989/normal_5fec1bf3ac824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://kesexawes.rf.gd/getexizeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a134ef9b-a212-4d8e-a35f-da3d896bbd40.filesusr.com/ugd/dadc92_b7e2d251943644b5a1988c5cd61200d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zezilometup.epizy.com/stock_market_news_today_msn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suletemusapiw.rf.gd/wovufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf130ee1-1463-4c69-9604-1b23772ced92.filesusr.com/ugd/b4609a_0d0802148bd249aba959922f67fef531.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://javasuk.epizy.com/86287945677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b00f38ea-0d13-4519-ab0f-1253f0d03ca0.filesusr.com/ugd/289c5e_33a899c984aa4f55b36de5b4f43aa93f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wumepudefix.rf.gd/chemistry_unit_12_test_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagowuv.epizy.com/68166670793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ac3db616-04cb-40f1-8357-c67041f5e20c.filesusr.com/ugd/eda9ba_fddb7097bc054d4681bcbd2397f46017.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_off00013757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13757 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 5a0c2cb5a2463c2e952bc8b57136fe772ec36a6b88b6d8612f2c21bb79e9fc94
font_01_sfnt_off00014887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14887 11736 bytes
SHA-256: dc0f0a464981dab672a28d5f91f8aa0dfed79f30ce6ad215d532ce596d52b002
font_02_sfnt_off00017087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17087 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f