Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6dfa01eb51cc258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-02-06 23:54:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 8a5b8c64792f1faed575ed5cb018ca79 SHA-1: c10445f98ecca4bf5e82bae9c5194b3395c61557 SHA-256: d6dfa01eb51cc258d702ef3911feef0845329c46e48aa1c85c4ab4780684e9b9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The primary function appears to be directing users to a network of potentially malicious or SEO-manipulating websites through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing or malicious content distribution scheme.

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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=380+f+to+c+fan PDF link annotation
    • https://vataripisak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600115/4006865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devlp.club/324433083536v1e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xugosovemi/iavidge/77464969118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carishr.com/jakapuvofixugazetolag6p71o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawinojos/CjeghFG/funny_car_racing_gif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpless.vip/60784360206pp1px.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/satidaruxami/ihEhbmV/bein_sports_live_stream_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zenetofuma/tD5jgib/30755026776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zovitamojim/eiyQje6/wize_eyes_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lozezuxugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016676/27f6ba5fac2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jakufomego/KPptjfX/movie_flix_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bebotarusi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454771/4011713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blacktea.space/500_days_of_summer_full_movie_hindi_dubbed_watch_onlinehx08w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strapslap.online/buruduguvulovimezxudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fomeluxilim/ibiRifI/hiper_scientific_calculator_app_store.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raicen.com/estados_financieros_definicionqxcap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukuvelawabuze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/224ecfd414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gunakawujo/aJ7PKi2/zugijejobesubebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pexodugosa/57970329878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jinabom/identifying_constant_of_proportionality_graph_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buxoparadazegu/54651223685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tutapaxi/java_util_list_jasperreport.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_off0000d256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD256 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 1c76e6efe200f1b179d53520404085b307fda1740420c947a3fe2e545dd65022
font_01_sfnt_off0000e35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35C 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 00f68d55187e28024455a191366d8b9023f5910f9f1e6d33c514e7f99f3aca3e