Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d75af02d4dfdce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 12:39:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: b6796e07b78aba0e8237768af6b9e741 SHA-1: 0a84809aeec51605c87853107a852efa3fb42d5a SHA-256: d6d75af02d4dfdce5b415d828f12eeb6ef8f3018a677d5ebacd2b7a0e21f71c1
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, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious 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://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=dbz+krillin+power+level PDF link annotation
    • http://nijewogifuzazi.mypressonline.com/what_is_the_difference_between_jbl_charge_4_and_flip_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miloxuso/AehjaxT/ziroriwogowitunewasalinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zofugef.mypressonline.com/treatment_of_malaria_in_first_trimester_of_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daxutoxod/hhojgmN/65843177738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabukim.mygamesonline.org/11937149969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagesopabiwub.scienceontheweb.net/42471534631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tisorobew/dReicii/76189136547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuwiwetidajin.mywebcommunity.org/what_does_stairway_to_heaven_mean_by_led_zeppelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosireditoj.mygamesonline.org/dotogafovovuketux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falorilipeb.mywebcommunity.org/gajavunolovamabenunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1a2149e7-ca7f-4e7c-a584-0e483de6f3af.filesusr.com/ugd/9219f8_03d8e8f84b57485890cec8a8ec878141.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9dcaa20c-aced-409f-829c-18556a3fbc2a/roku_express_3900x_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8925f29-62a6-4faf-81d7-8a70cc94d6e8/a_queer_history_of_the_united_states_chapter_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexizijisub.atwebpages.com/buckethead_soothsayer_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f207bc4d-bee1-4abe-8857-08ba91672b1d/should_i_read_shadow_and_bone_first.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://010f2e21-25ca-4560-806d-08cbbb7c7db1.filesusr.com/ugd/74a852_adb6c7ce5f3d408e8cf137e5e02d7683.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://48bf584d-d56c-45cf-b4f3-c1c05dce5274.filesusr.com/ugd/3f4b99_bbc8ff61e8f34b81a0a1f162f4752068.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://taguloxutenafol.myartsonline.com/sukeramuxogevogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a60daa0-604e-47ab-9bf1-cc3b0d8c31a0/harrison_internal_medicine_new_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1292c74-a429-4bb5-8004-87f23f3b14ae/26620427848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8f98835-b194-42a5-b43f-fe2f29920dd6.filesusr.com/ugd/bf650e_e96375bd3e9346a2976ae614c742798a.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB38 4832 bytes
SHA-256: b2402b8b1a10a477970ac9dce66493f2fb9ae1e280aa0fc38daf6d08a5149524
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: b6abad82aa0c78f61397ae5e376bed4a2f44ae9ebe2c20c57e65711d6b2b6d26