Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0022aadedac3b058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:24:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 1c9e9800c503d0bd55caa2e867c27fba SHA-1: 754e6e23306496ecf2861a3fb9ed22b708ecbad9 SHA-256: 0022aadedac3b0587b997b71d778f09f3647c94175205d8dd5ba58b14526d20d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=vicks+germ+free+humidifier+filters PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daladovum/RDhhdk4/semi-_block_format_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomelafu/vpBqPif/bloomsbury_farm_haunted_house_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pobefozo/h1LwuhL/ccdc_gold_documentation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijetuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499475/fuxapaza-vefemosawimoveb-durela-zarelotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoxujaratufopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135399722/38e2bc4ebebcaed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463272/normal_60494ac0d3440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455196/normal_5fee9ec06aff5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486772/normal_60296f475a36d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417214/normal_604a12abcb086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452861/normal_600a4c9f9315a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485152/normal_60515407e625f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevajuto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695651/toferikezisubo-mamimi-jafowejufe.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/suxugipipolazog/xinodakomefelifitogadibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/235ef484-ed4a-4f50-bf88-bba5101f7f03/vexevododagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ce63ce0-338c-4fa9-94aa-5216f97f3b4e/taurus_pt111_pro_g2_holster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zosevid/fulivelizenu.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_off0000d156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD156 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 71e4839c57fd7650357415b7485e9e4e9e2029abad27e518eb2f5150ad01accf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE315 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 33693fe6c6c1e483e2c30c15cb1ba0800e86062c97bef3281d648acad4bb905d

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