Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ee52ce034206bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-03-16 06:19:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 13f262f73f88f6a04bcec7fbc7be2001 SHA-1: f1b3f7841ce5c177b953768bc0728f2306b9b2f9 SHA-256: 01ee52ce034206bc6c94ff43739b66c49c8a409bd2d9d47b8efdfec697f05bac
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=analyse+the+principles+of+effective+classroom+communication+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zegofurop/jaibier/land_air_sea_gps_login.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/molavagew/idBjhoO/dc_comics_wikipedia_espanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490720/normal_6024eea13af23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402280/normal_5fc766af12b1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374175/normal_6029090633e63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414849/normal_5fe36294078f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pugirunosamo/f8FjjTi/towapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492529/normal_603ede37b016e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481509/normal_6028c4ce92056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/feluxolid/43DjaBe/45731022130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/junigofulum/hgjclq5/disco_zoo_patterns_wiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://0c2a7d7b-be9d-4ef2-a94c-09ca905cc17d.filesusr.com/ugd/7d21c0_88240782a1cf462a8c19cd10cfe9b71d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e4bb137-b433-4202-962a-f842e31b06ab/56708649969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b15b8b72-7bdd-4d2f-b39d-b9922f5a8c5a/zaragugafugusefabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7c12bd1-548a-4639-9245-66faac17dc79/3420288625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a161ff94-1a6f-4367-b6f8-8e513a5e676d.filesusr.com/ugd/4c7633_66437a63b4164e838ed3f616cdcfd771.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e5101b6-f9e1-47e5-bf14-af66a408f7cd/are_rex_rabbits_good_pets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22041c03-427c-4bda-9c33-c8fdc5100542/when_will_one_punch_man_season_3_release.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebba3e40-d49f-4cc8-b137-373bb1124918.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_fc25d475182844a39c28e2e2f8f8088a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b5fad74-21bb-4aa4-9c56-354a41cd2b9d/what_is_thermal_processing_used_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e2ee4aa-488d-455e-ab59-9619daa569e7/64674624847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f22e4f49-3623-41f8-a554-ff2b0211ee20/44959310146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55f567bc-d4aa-4613-9d4b-c5fc44d68a23/96836052670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://05491ccc-77c7-428b-9c25-74f2c6c50d4a.filesusr.com/ugd/d51d36_f67b676671da4d4e87817916c3831a24.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000140a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A6 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 8439f27b14442587eb59b8673212fb67e38446b3186c02e0622b630267734a71
font_01_sfnt_off0001536c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1536C 10436 bytes
SHA-256: d696c9bf5acc05da54e97e8d03901d55a9b2493391cba97c01ecc8bc54ef558a