Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 059510dc4d21100c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-04-03 02:58:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 64f653084daad5f53e875d229d04f023 SHA-1: c38748fb8a2609e4709a84eb101e63d0961bb420 SHA-256: 059510dc4d21100ca10331a69d21c376616afa884d45a0c999734e1491fb2ec8
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, with heuristics indicating a link farm designed to direct users to other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of suspicious and disposable hosting domains further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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/award?keyword=anita+desai+fire+on+the+mountain+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vijepuwobewi.mygamesonline.org/abstract_reasoning_aptitude_test_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuparududewon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856041/desixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kewesowovim/ggARjc8/colored_contacts_for_halloween_non-_prescription.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nurijodefa/fgfOWF1/42393503232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zeputefilu/ejhce3f/wild_deer_hunting_adventure_animal_shooting_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gunumiku/hiIjffy/easy_voice_recorder_app_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trixy-matrix.space/57490418695vbyjd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/givesaxi/Sxjb0jg/love_stickers_for_whatsapp_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sipebesoxu/gjpcJjg/tozogivubimafoduvoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatibetoliwan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134731660/tavomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managerprogram.live/fozunoxubopudoxeaql.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gevanadu/heRlHHL/wupedapuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aov.one/jonathan_livingston_seagull_movie_reviewydqtd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mojikeke/hOj4igg/color_ball_jump_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rirakibugo/jijhPUW/33385186881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xonigej.mypressonline.com/reluctant_fundamentalist_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vomukefepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872153/muzaxawofejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ujjjrrrrr.space/sheet_cake_cutter_machinek3vsa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fakaluwu.scienceontheweb.net/mofilesinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islemleriniz.org/horizon_hobby_support_numberxrbq5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fusozevukatamir.atwebpages.com/78913428473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubirumoxid.onlinewebshop.net/massachusetts_durable_power_of_attorney_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxoposuxasife.rf.gd/jojukatikasuxosorobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasuvum.rf.gd/simple_past_affirmative_form_exercises.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_off000109ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109EC 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 695d9756521d5b819950dc7334ce742f61458324ce9b46d81d7b26c66d428376
font_01_sfnt_off00011b98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B98 10508 bytes
SHA-256: f896efbdca36dc9d1b179e9baaacc0c1b48e78626d2675606ed357455f0c9388