Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efd61d6231cd192f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-05-17 02:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 1ca52e041dd17940a1dfbf2f37283c62 SHA-1: aadea338180d0c6168132e73d2bec08e05d408be SHA-256: efd61d6231cd192f0548d3f0bd88878e385db47369399f6b29d935f00918376c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or facilitate phishing. The presence of a specific URL with a 'utm_term' parameter indicates a potential attempt to track user clicks for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=plate+heat+exchanger+design+software+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kosadara/blhijgG/piano_keyboard_notes_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458137/normal_601cacc611611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dudurejavir/i4ghhbu/doctors_note_for_standing_desk_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujavaluzosozu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134013303/didizezazawevij-fovapuvenidila-vifekoliwezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369524/normal_5fd6d231da9e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujekesire/geKVhdM/zeluxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montana-media.com/a_first_course_in_database_systems_3rd_edition_by_ullman_and_widom_u_w1pqta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudovizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338339/ccf824c9f5ac9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393359/normal_601f6dbf56187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426277/normal_5ffd722eeac11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jololese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599323/wafalakage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocobeautybar.ca/63556629669uinm0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalcalakk1.xyz/africa_toto_keyboard_solo_sheet_musicdt8sd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zujubokave/vigdghJ/russian_car_simulator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jegupifak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018348/silujetesoni_gurilumobegaveb_kitupifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zezajezo.epizy.com/27855591614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosigasarem.epizy.com/ms_word_download_for_pc_windows_10_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zosotafofuzidiv.rf.gd/van_der_waals_equation_constants_a_and_b_units.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/befafuni/vovibefitirudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fowikorejodi/jimi_hendrix_little_wing_acoustic_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisewado.rf.gd/15627105320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasalesex.epizy.com/genetics_vocabulary_worksheet.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_off0000f168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF168 5444 bytes
SHA-256: b73aadb6686f7aae9877c862e073d578c09a8e621986b70268fd3e671e40f2dc
font_01_sfnt_off000103ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FF 12588 bytes
SHA-256: dbe642ccbacd276a6a1b96f06218b3e8263dacb70062dd05434c6db166f485cf