Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d74cd2778e1060…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-03-08 14:40:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 7d252759dbff31a84c8514ba0c3bea22 SHA-1: 62c1ea1f667c732c7ba8d60d8776ec101adbc22d SHA-256: b6d74cd2778e1060b269566377012394580c06142aeadaed7ebc6daf3774c0d1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'editorial essay example pdf' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or spam-related content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=editorial+essay+example+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kiradaropamun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070158/dinuluwigozevumogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiwosanoxonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299962/3030831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467043/normal_5fe706938bbf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xurinuwame/iEjjag4/lolelebetajugamifudujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413978/normal_6019c9aa13e2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zigikarorusoto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351373/rejuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dinigivo/t1jjFXv/wopupexifumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486965/normal_6021c6676ce9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369930/normal_60072439d8ac1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pujixefan/cGMblhc/vasurapiwipowofazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diwijavel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134691177/soxalusenipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/winogolelog/fViRhbX/rise_of_skywalker_general_grievous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wazalopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/5998698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muluxadi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/lurutikimixijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413000/normal_6006b924b1893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://severuzilun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134710190/7fe7463bcfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44576897-905a-49c6-8d5d-e1f09cde96bd/gmat_coaching_institutes_in_delhi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://def26600-86c9-4442-a738-094ddf2992d1.filesusr.com/ugd/eb5a6a_72d09e30e1bc4649ba4602938ff98b6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://19508648-7f28-415f-8121-b57715dc1465.filesusr.com/ugd/9734e7_ad6167713a7c4ccf90c270af8624d1f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_4dd6a293182848aca0b767bbe9db7528.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0a2a5f4-7459-43f4-9350-71a8983b13ac/71431154860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f55907c-5f4a-4d00-8bd9-65422b3db61b/mircea_eliade_le_chamanisme.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_off0001296e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296E 5316 bytes
SHA-256: ecd500814edc2bdc4a29befca2b605cf8e302071df7428fcc0793f22212e943a
font_01_sfnt_off00013b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B7B 10472 bytes
SHA-256: fd561f5f79851f76bc02f8858e0426808d42d81ffb3f674acf351cfc143fe883