Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc6c05d2c5072329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-04-23 16:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5463d632d397d0f3be55283a4bacc939 SHA-1: d19833c2f7fb485fd0131832e7ad971aeeb6f992 SHA-256: fc6c05d2c507232984bba7b3048e82a5ca6a785f1ffbfffa3951e530e7565845
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=concise+introduction+to+tonal+harmony+2nd+edition+workbook In PDF document text
    • http://befigter.xyz/maison_farnsworth_planggck8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukuzemuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306557/tofagexoxewolamadomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383475/normal_6040ae026d6eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444874/normal_6061e67985431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420761/normal_60089a298677e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379603/normal_600e37709ded5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokopepexepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379351/5895c3d840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitcoinov.site/introduccion_de_un_ensayo_argumentativo_sobre_el_abortoshyvn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33ca07bf-f4e6-461a-9508-d0ccdc73648f/emma_jane_austen_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/500b90d7-df76-4923-9e75-d68d749f2d13/gerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9980b997-f512-4bbd-9ce6-230d2dd51b9d/super_systems_clean_plus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26d00a56-acf4-49db-b7dc-4de8c5eba38f/lakuxizobolapuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02314edc-d025-420b-9d62-795437f25c47.filesusr.com/ugd/4f0fc1_c86a5e8aa86346e5ac34b57ef678a62d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91e55214-10ad-44cf-a10a-60a9392df58b.filesusr.com/ugd/e1c37d_5eaec9875cf04c2cb7a38f09a0e626a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e53c8fcc-339b-4d8f-83f6-44ddc8c6ace4.filesusr.com/ugd/1ea9c4_3b67916461294fc9b67c12447bf685fa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://183df7f2-4185-4ca0-bfcc-33b39bc842f1.filesusr.com/ugd/9ac34a_6b26cfba57a041aaaeb1c00a9c0a44ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/37d90506-8aa3-4153-a65b-443a95f0129b/aqualink_rs4_spa_not_heating.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD179 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 19f6a4a45c649a70fbf584b04f23f08cbedbc3c30121c6feb21b917dd8654f67
font_01_sfnt_off0000e478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE478 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 9c20c66a13dca073ad49ceabde9c79e23fde3765a2657f369a9448c08cbfb532
font_02_sfnt_off00010a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A17 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 6049f7be1eb58524b2bfe5e0ab34f4300347f26dbb23ab6ad605e3b0d5647553