Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09b0551eb74b2059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-03-19 18:16:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0bf2da99ca95e782ba3b72e644c4ebb6 SHA-1: b39d328bff9de9f5023d3b59d37960f2f0ed656d SHA-256: 09b0551eb74b20593917dbe62d4b1ce84dd7eb3777f284a2a2f32efe2cb929da
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, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=who+wrote+persepolis PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464082/normal_5ff3eecc69b6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408485/normal_5ff60640b4fdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovatafob.mypressonline.com/lepedizotoropowuripegijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449014/normal_5fdbd2ca01c44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443576/normal_5fdec3f035102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371004/normal_5ffe6e561f967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xovefopu.myartsonline.com/ielts_general_reading_practice_test_idp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa57ebef-d730-4093-872e-8cfd994644d7/what_is_the_dynamics_of_local_cultural_production.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e25b5f36-ee09-4010-8803-019b2853a23b.filesusr.com/ugd/c34eac_9a70f8759ce04deab8dffd863882d2ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f90d21b-e2b1-4cdf-b87f-359278180d3d/apollo_twin_mkii_solo_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0536c7ef-1a5e-478f-b4be-1af7db353009/duvumuremejevibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a853b39-a109-4b5c-be3c-913162aa21fd/vevifagikisomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2080fafa-2491-4ac3-8118-a138f33bff34.filesusr.com/ugd/822ecd_cead85f2a4fc40c3a6a40074c0abc9b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1be6f5d6-675a-415e-9608-0c8a0e91a51d/61749843015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75c3c901-4b58-48f7-97c6-fcd925a183b8/criminal_law_def_medical.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b46812e-ed07-45ac-9706-4ae092ab0c3f/xunumufowegofotokalafotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/15b9c95a-bd60-42c9-88d3-18e7a3808255/nusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soranodabiwegi.myartsonline.com/fluent_english_speaking_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3dbec44f-45cc-443e-ac03-b0ee37a9ae42/epson_wf_2630_not_printing_black_ink.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF43 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 49353ffae04a4d67f492a2c5291401320c71bf27a6f5a6530eab7d088f627d62
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA9 11628 bytes
SHA-256: 5d0c7e5643e5251ff2a780182d36b7d9d6f0a17bc4f5ebc97e674ae52875744c
font_02_sfnt_off0001366e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1366E 17076 bytes
SHA-256: c417931cdb77bc16f5fd473c5d3398a031ef127c783d0675d8c07e7c370f067a