Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c160fd0c5f652e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-03-14 15:30:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 60b8dc9f835c4639f7fee0c4e5143484 SHA-1: c215041ef205c894acf16d5585ab818a94fc5faa SHA-256: c160fd0c5f652e1cb5bd404caf20909667e52f66389f6573727663c996014371
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with many pointing to disposable hosting and exhibiting link farm characteristics, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=storm+spirit+laning+guide PDF link annotation
    • http://kujunat.medianewsonline.com/88002484122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denizan.com/gobumegekesopakexame7jfna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnitoli-2ekran.site/sabiduria_emocional_walter_riso_descargar_gratisqo5jb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/samekikogeri/eiiE7Uw/52177464619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunesygets.xyz/50471256257rl73i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedumerik.sportsontheweb.net/vokonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xitawefavam.medianewsonline.com/46484345594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vumusokutil/sWPwTig/color_wheel_project_ideas_for_cosmetology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/segenoliz/jdhghf4/blackpink_songs_english_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pexarinolal.mypressonline.com/pipimudejumaxixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501045/normal_6013b00c90acf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magazinrf.xyz/gliosis_in_mri_reportewz4l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psylath.com/video_capture_software_macjw8wm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456165/normal_603a288ad1bc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buganixezu/e9gdege/all_social_media_video_downloader_v6_nulled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/midipumep/hbMjegf/podcast_addict_not_showing_in_android_auto.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/837ba255-a84a-45d9-8aab-311d3d62c043/98363965915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8533cbf3-c0d6-400c-bdf8-8ca38cf0242b.filesusr.com/ugd/135178_44d86d619cbf4eba84e8e63c9e3a6e83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b01ec662-dec5-4f54-b977-8708717d6054.filesusr.com/ugd/07e02c_cb498f0761514dc89e363fef015fb03a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9fb56b6-0d2f-4987-9c09-45b11bd49028/best_yoga_books_for_beginners_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba428ff1-d53d-4eb5-bdb2-cc960067f420.filesusr.com/ugd/7041e4_ab116ad339eb47ff919685ce86a6a149.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db4c7e29-e20a-4187-ad7b-a64110a6aeb9/why_wont_my_lay_z_spa_heat_up.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6b7b3c7-8429-4d82-9d75-5d5d09e763cc.filesusr.com/ugd/a8c229_ccc467c0b4464a3fb6b9a9065453d73c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7016fd5-152a-4c13-a378-fd6aff4afeb5/47285644431.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C15 5264 bytes
SHA-256: a559db004fe0001a2ff3168641e2a19252e8ae9a8872662894fea6561049157a
font_01_sfnt_off00011dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCD 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed8d673c2ea83015c01dfe1e746bbd8f67ef811772937f518df00041c1e061e
font_02_sfnt_off000142d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142D6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e