Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fe5652755b59e1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-04-04 01:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 599a79a692ea0c0ce56e82be184f4a1a SHA-1: d5cd7ec85fe4cfbefb7741f211c1f19e4f0fc4de SHA-256: 0fe5652755b59e1d2009a79c15ecb47ba6ec6b4992844989d22c1d65278560c3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

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=1300+math+formulas+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369772/normal_6051ead8add73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magowowir.iblogger.org/aeronautical_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejiredokeku.iblogger.org/yes_please_meaning_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevobul.22web.org/wijujuliwibizumidoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417643/normal_60430888529e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6b81976-582b-4c3f-9137-a4aa1a10e8f5/51006005219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c666933-a8eb-464c-acc9-acc9a2f94598/how_to_bias_fender_twin_reverb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuvafakidem.rf.gd/excel_formula_not_working_in_another_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/toniseligiwuzux/bully_game_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fccd5518-64e1-462d-9dbe-8d8d8a19ca7a.filesusr.com/ugd/eb005d_1eee9f577edc470da1468b14105bec16.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ad19342-c763-47ec-a4e7-a4d21579438f/boganodepazupivowupiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dadiwewoweziwi.epizy.com/whirlpool_top_load_washer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanalatuzukogax.epizy.com/69954245907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ximupuv/sennheiser_rs120_on-ear_wireless_rf_headphones_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c6111751-42b6-464f-a8b1-832d492ff999.filesusr.com/ugd/3d0627_1d124bd444ce4dc8af88114b2370c3e7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0dd4521b-3e41-4083-9bcc-807cce03ae78.filesusr.com/ugd/cfe2e9_7434bc36eac3489d9d895b45b7646c9c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fosawef/wapejonora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eade0c8c-9151-4288-b16b-bfc7178bfc43/zesusivisevalewakewalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2346e0b9-9678-4d88-83d2-3cad0f22d900/are_nordic_track_ski_machines_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonadomafi.rf.gd/top_5_largest_cities_in_germany.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liboditi.rf.gd/45105629412.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1C 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 3a99bfcc8a6322cb1f5d9dd0c76c95525b0630114fc12c53a342d41e6b6e0e01
font_01_sfnt_off0000e98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98C 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 19ecc560aee0cda8a0ec1fc0da22bd5ba27dd398ae1dcc50886cf407d48bfaa0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA0 10668 bytes
SHA-256: cbe916f6b62fcf01bcde4b0c4aa9183086bb54e270dc6d8f144bfcd33659b397
font_03_sfnt_off00012004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12004 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2