Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6eac56588134def…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-04-01 01:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 17919df76ab0feabe6714babc2dd769b SHA-1: 7bbe76b4669a013deeb21b04c0ccb47c439a9fc2 SHA-256: f6eac56588134def47f3928e156141e71e1038f186d948ba2e971bdf54694abf
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to SEO and link generation, with one URL specifically mentioning "advanced music theory books pdf" as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=advanced+music+theory+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486346/normal_600ec10adf7c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voicebftyi.com/what_do_contemplate_meanqs3l3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394079/normal_601b206ecb1a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaya.site/15975140426vfrs2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websecurer.tech/mexican_culture_worksheetstyn31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdfafq.info/tchibo_cafissimo_compact_manual_englishsgvnw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteramaks.world/tunipokazubozunipidubojidd6fo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4423700/normal_5fecc1b904e80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rodina38.ru/band_vaaje_mp3_songs_free_downloadnt0rm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487662/normal_60550a7443bcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386851/normal_6041410f36b22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381536/normal_605f660233674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cooldomen.space/how_to_hook_up_z_wave_light_switchsyp5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450640/normal_603b3f3d8e6d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endi-itali.space/sowovituxufajobipefusawip1wfnk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://507d1b22-ea03-4061-a262-f79425337ca2.filesusr.com/ugd/a374b9_69415eb1cd9740ff8c39cb3d214a90f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ded83f9a-1539-4ec9-9bc5-cc5d16bdac5e/the_collector_2009_movie_download_300mb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcd7deca-fd5d-492b-a220-d373ca515bc9.filesusr.com/ugd/12f4eb_e4fa28401a9949ecabd7ebec0ece40a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/474ab294-c459-436c-ad92-ff95baaf964c/english_speaking_app_offline_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9eb0b7b8-14f4-4362-b3a1-db8397dcec8a/belerume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72407a79-5ef3-450c-93b1-56ae5cb3408f/8426129062.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10944 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 835c9ddce57e64463d29446b755ac97863d85f5dff361fd2662fc55858fc2b57
font_01_sfnt_off00011c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C23 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 35396600486702263f5263466f348309851eb27d652db94b09036a181cb693fb
font_02_sfnt_off00013fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FA3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f