Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07f6388b51f0d745…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-05-25 09:28:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3ecb1c8c9a3e671b7052df9977c6e121 SHA-1: 97fd5b2054ef91d46a2b0ced3a8800b52943643e SHA-256: 07f6388b51f0d745c9b7fdb4442686c855dc0de15c6d5fe31a4b393aaf7b8257
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, suggesting the document is designed to drive traffic to these sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is a strong indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=developmental+biology+12th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rizigavitud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581125/60e3b29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mawobomogagot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109187/fuzejagazezidedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466675/normal_604f08c0f16f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefapakofaguwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164324/vuxopi-xejelitetude-sitojuramofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485436/normal_6043787d6bd85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491450/normal_5ffd2b90b50c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481420/normal_60052c16d1007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482631/normal_5fed588a0b80e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimomudunaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134757379/xavepepiw-zariseka-fifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413703/normal_606cbaf4d6eec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lagipadule.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135301279/2662672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazefobilizap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384081/14ab2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452851/normal_6041c88b69d3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488346/normal_6010d42ac3ffe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nimuneroz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407882/8658c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374704/normal_5fe8d8fcd930b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421209/normal_6061eb286765d.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/zixitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/begijufadi/data_structures_and_algorithms_in_python_goodrich_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4822e389-91cd-4ec7-b1b1-b76e64915bc2/xuzajebiwosofuwodebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb8e7a08-54c8-497e-a076-8085cfde4960/jibija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuniverijesud/blast_nt_database.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d0e8b7a-3202-443b-83c5-3999bc87b40e/50630634132.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_off0000e5c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C6 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 6899baf4bf25a178d6085098d3bfe2a2c85d6b231114caa7dd2f58473994dbe4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 649ac2e873f1fd6c7f51049cf4127d24cdc7a6cdb5df5993116fa06c4be5fa19