Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6eb839056a88a33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2021-04-11 13:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 6adfc599a5478ee61797cfbed7158400 SHA-1: 9445de6b7c06c2297f1480cf355aacf1ddf5a785 SHA-256: c6eb839056a88a3384b155c8db068fc8329b3080417d009901b198bf1a812df4
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to seemingly legitimate domains but structured as webform submissions, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5206

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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
  • 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://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/50635107556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/xikamiwaboloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/31226501773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/ranet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sapatilhas+de+cristal+wiki+drama+korPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20850651402.pdfIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC977 7940 bytes
SHA-256: 4f66d9ba1993f8091fca764bd425974d04c9b391d82bbf417489793e9c286ca0