Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09a69feb599b913c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 13:06:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 960627a1acda97843693f9bf28ef6100 SHA-1: da1eeeafdc43276eb35221fd792c5f76ca804eab SHA-256: 09a69feb599b913c77d9e98ef5e8fd09671945fe53646fa80efead638c385460
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, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of malicious redirection or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=how+to+add+hyperlink+in+illustrator+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sekeniti/hhgfj9i/78050051574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425238/normal_602ce20fe1032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/molivovuki/ioO2iia/laludofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383804/normal_5fe8c75c9c3af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/soxuwutitaw/Jie8iaa/3014087240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4503050/normal_5ffc8dd8c301d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393635/normal_5fd8e2f36fb04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a121017b-3fb3-450c-9156-48dd71a9bf80.filesusr.com/ugd/07625c_ecf3e0b1a7d148d293f571b5a4298370.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be6aa494-931d-41eb-892b-d9232e802d1d/harvard_map_collection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/843f954f-f295-47cd-b278-a71f2cf51ca9/how_to_contact_amazon_with_an_idea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4197d10a-c828-4e95-81d8-14e396ddeac7/como_forrar_cuadernos_para_nios_de_preescolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vatosolikijike/83297243771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a3c73713-be4b-4c8d-a01f-dab92ecb4e1a.filesusr.com/ugd/5df860_4123def5394246cdb9368816589b1c8d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6a821bc-bd1d-45b8-8421-bce592c34350/a_dolls_house_act_1_setting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b154909b-5957-4b83-b2ca-1207a57ddf15/how_to_switch_sim_card_in_lg_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wuzalugiseto/82624771147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a245c18d-cbb2-4248-9b47-66c581509d39/what_is_pascals_triangle_used_for_in_life.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/561cc77e-be01-431e-8965-9fefa818d8e6/honda_rancher_es_350_stock_tire_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6843e3eb-5573-46e1-90a0-370cfc2b4a0d.filesusr.com/ugd/89b1bc_77d0ac49560d4b8c95a6e91de78ef2e8.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_off0000e8f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F5 5540 bytes
SHA-256: d1dc157b75407cd37c551ffc3d70c94b9c8ed698c35d9a398101264aa251b050
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD9 11888 bytes
SHA-256: fb0e54f1e9586bc5be28e0bd198fb2ae8fe468f9860e3fed5856097096c180db