Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a6d3d4dd2ad53d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 18:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: aac377c162d30bc1f9ae1adc01deb9ac SHA-1: 1ee11835f4b813c032df819dd3a5e2c98762c07a SHA-256: e1a6d3d4dd2ad53d067d7b1fc07980f3af984d590ec1afda7e211c2e0723bfb9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'Gk capsule pdf download' text in the document body, combined with the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, indicates a deceptive attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=gk+capsule+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lovechat24.club/pathfinder_bloodrager_guider7imz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-officialsite.site/bugifexipomegesokawixmgwq0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ductsunlimitedins.com/mizesu30dir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registrat.space/junebojubarq0zru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://6a24fdd2-d4a5-4c4b-882b-0f3115751bcf.filesusr.com/ugd/04e6f9_d728e27fcbe340bba4b1ab7739d64e30.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b5f169ef-6bcf-4d19-a24b-32bdc9dd7a5f.filesusr.com/ugd/2e79a6_7a1a42fdab1345ada8c7c831d92331c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c18d7360-3707-4bf1-9d6f-52ba7510fa17.filesusr.com/ugd/76cb06_03f20b96ffad44638128c0f148c134f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45b0b119-5f8c-43e7-b437-4e12d17c1c81.filesusr.com/ugd/3826db_f07f7810e6ff4fdba47dc4d3dca477a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa52777-3edb-460f-9b14-ca5101cd4ecc.filesusr.com/ugd/5360f8_8ea2a65421cc4e5e90abe3ebf3bb2076.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30f5e11f-e71d-4ff1-8b48-e347edc9b224/51063075977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ececae0b-1312-4a4c-959a-117928b3d478.filesusr.com/ugd/e6721e_05e857d51ee74b2797584f3432fd33a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3a00e800-a8eb-44ae-aafc-ae9aecab8e06.filesusr.com/ugd/1715bf_0d0f777111e74376889f96281f0410c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f5765b5-411c-4b28-96d1-a1e3b219bcee.filesusr.com/ugd/ca847e_0884a9d341724cacab2b1979ee5d768c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb2d4818-2134-4ea5-ae57-1bc45cfc4292.filesusr.com/ugd/7e787c_3d14a047b3604df8b93a2826264d7dab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://56db2a4d-09ce-4ff6-a558-abb1d6727cd4.filesusr.com/ugd/003b86_274f4c34db1647d786cef50083c4bac5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/135a7e77-ac11-4a6d-8ee9-cd9383b56f45/hp_officejet_pro_8600_plus_fax_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b3a1a1c9-4f8f-4fb8-b7cc-7339030cc889.filesusr.com/ugd/162fe6_3977d210e1c1420c823aba552700d464.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF759 5240 bytes
SHA-256: ab629a6cafc4d58c04d7fc7846030e8d6d79b97240b8df2b8d99de273fe2291e
font_01_sfnt_off00010960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10960 11064 bytes
SHA-256: dd796b7be3283d5bc510ae3805cad9a98f7c5260002ad8e383d3771f9d0944ad
font_02_sfnt_off00012f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F68 2832 bytes
SHA-256: d6d4b6f1b7f352d432267b4f0e1a3b962fa55fceade102acb1249ce1b722a51a