Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01dc83ee5cea44e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-05-06 18:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b493ffa4be14eeeb75a0259e9b0d6f8c SHA-1: eded7a5955542d2a3856344ccc6d91fe3113aa98 SHA-256: 01dc83ee5cea44e0cad270b0287846f7bcf87490573be07e2e868c740bc6b9cb
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 lure. Heuristics like PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=a+level+biology+aqa+specification+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/Cm9jfWu/13324013923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gufojakig/mjcIVhd/armageddon_chess_olympiad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://20970907.net/marantz_sr6009_dolby_atmoss9c5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neranutedaxujaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407849/xudofavogadavose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1xbet-registrat.site/27592209692fhj6o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gigezojiradof.scienceontheweb.net/boris_cyrulnik_libros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kominepoli/R3ig0LS/sanitarium_meaning_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nevawanipo/gfjgaHe/select_blinds_installation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-favshopd.online/la_planC3A8te_des_singes_rC3A9sumC3A9uxfar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesobaka3.xyz/how_to_remote_start_2016_mazda_cx_5f7l1x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotemewan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380756/4616433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vupapevixu/Xrggiin/54199218017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xelajuwodaf/sPThhjj/stickman_hook_challenge_22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sejiganabukuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585043/4031557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wapevenupu/BjgxjjG/daily_dozen_checklist_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loganidob/dih4jgh/68494319647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dewisazovuvoxi.mywebcommunity.org/antique_hand_crank_singer_sewing_machine.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/gedesisumi/indian_history_timeline_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wegemebufojafak/solitaire_game_for_windows_8_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wipibefab.onlinewebshop.net/emphatic_structures_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuluwajewugutik.onlinewebshop.net/alif_laila_ki_kahani_in_urdu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF446 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 5aed0717efc9410e8705c0aeb6899309f28a4fa7d7544f56a7045f77b1ab2473
font_01_sfnt_off00010795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10795 6604 bytes
SHA-256: 5906786c26a369e2c21367c2eb22ba723ebf9e5208c21c507a24a60960378ff4
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB2 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 9842444ddf313b0c6a412300c2482fbf99cec9a6c1779c12d7a62916a7b2008d
font_03_sfnt_off00014584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14584 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 5574da6b353e82d281b331cfb0d5ce524f145a6f41ab8b2c60f06522538da958