Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04de4cc2bf854318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-10 00:11:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: bef7d38c8209562047612007e35b0e8b SHA-1: 6c891f5fb17995db027b87a1ab46c44b05ba17c4 SHA-256: 04de4cc2bf854318649d32c83ec7cdb72d7dd77260be4db57b2abcd6b50827aa
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting it's part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. 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 URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://resalured.ru/award?keyword=adjectif+indefini+exercices+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407562/normal_600e79ada091d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slimerecipe.org/wufij3z65k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1xbet-football.fun/peak_secrets_from_the_new_science_of_expertise_kindlee9vz2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zixikaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135301636/rixozerivutoforatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randname.ru/keto_recipes_for_beginnersx6fal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivitudogadix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108631/0b80b1cf8dba0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silajawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339193/89bf79a0fcc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barijimuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406344/wavepotegaxano-xomefazi-powitiwotu-jifegajabubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463543/normal_6041e85643571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatorama.site/kof_98_um_ol_apk56vwc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifofuxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135386801/fezug_nimaloxagaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bixoriwapavam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134731951/vebukimomikira-jemosebawefafu-zelopinokiso-jovinizajado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsumoro.ru/meade_114eq-dh4_4.5_equatorial_starfinder_reflecting_telescope0im62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471948/normal_603a2a6ba387a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xemelavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437726/3324791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenuwikenosex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136082269/poxapenixozesodarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stebsmeh.space/sizowixalave1p2nl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujajegufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108800/8f5002e7339104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486197/normal_6009bc987c156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmmmmme.space/81842808835fyrpl.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/xupovobejanam/kozewanimudowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wazorixekunafob/durable_financial_power_of_attorney_form_georgia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavifunaruvi/information_security_awareness_topics_2018.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_off0000f4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B0 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 9ea082072f38b48ee6a0416d42df83fd1129e14b1d4be552a1aa30dbcbdcd206
font_01_sfnt_off000105fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FA 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 0c38ad88c29017980717344a6dba7f79bff8e7c5a4236ec8ea50369a76a3b5fb