Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a320e1f7bd928e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 04:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ac8d918bac5b384a656fe8f995afa825 SHA-1: 69424ec39aec7e258e111b46d3fa70170d5b38e1 SHA-256: 0a320e1f7bd928e272c3bd6717cadd8625c18fe5fa00fd21793e162fba5a0bbb
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 pointing to disposable domains, which is characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/pbw?utm_term=cycloid+drawing+machine+free+plans PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487005/normal_605f610e980ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408335/normal_6025cbfe46e89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416321/normal_5ff6779cb11c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388163/normal_6032ab2b4a699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421472/normal_6037f38f88073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4458428/normal_5fffe8f8b935a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gufagopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134660265/8568108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465938/normal_5fcce89e69230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393180/normal_6054883c5eee8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404739/normal_602edfaee3c1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446380/normal_602b6a9f28a8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382208/normal_5fed64e79ab7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471719/normal_606568dbdd204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiduwovizeget.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134517619/fobakatina-pikire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://disisopaz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144820368/what_is_transistor_biasing_and_how_it_works.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pezaloribed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144491886/1209160788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suniger.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145103235/dont_starve_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajejor.pbworks.com/f/vladimir_propp_morphologie_du_conte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowenoxo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144883272/60938165285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metudebebi.pbworks.com/f/what_is_the_winkel_tripel_map_used_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojifot.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144414078/what_is_the_best_essential_oil_diffuser_humidifier.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_off0000e196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE196 5668 bytes
SHA-256: 7865cb49c807824d3cdceb7da5990b56f5888db22b9fa1cc49ab602c2176768e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CF 11080 bytes
SHA-256: e4e6b797e31a1286fd2387d7a1a6df74fe4e4e844aa5e00ec2663693785fc46a