Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 104f4badad9991a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-03-19 04:37:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d0b3f8c207f0b786c4eed0804487b364 SHA-1: caa858345412decb0fde3c5fef7f01572a5edd13 SHA-256: 104f4badad9991a5347376d02403cd86c690c819f9ae71cd91d0732464bc4fa9
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 or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, directing users to potentially harmful content.

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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=one+way+anova+example+problems+with+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://support-copyrighthelpservice-about.com/sherlock_holmes_movie_dual_audio_1080p_downloadn4xf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puzaloraren.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134510283/kipuboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454281/normal_605409e5dd9b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424630/normal_6053e6f5ce970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudikefasegez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070357/552b113a00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448986/normal_5fc66517f411c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383703/normal_6027cfdfac586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganegekisawaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406809/8a5abdc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391008/normal_60249efd42f14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366406/normal_5fca7ad683f60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velonifiwivuli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739758/gewufiduvavazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416934/normal_6014951f50059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourdesk.website/fiwovinupanejovuvenijix6qqds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energierecrute-emplois.com/lisuzegegopefiviwelewfp4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zufojemesegogof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753559/4751eab46992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490244/normal_5fc6206cd44d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimelasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134513778/ripeduraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://77ac2d45-d533-4b4b-a85c-01e81860bff9.filesusr.com/ugd/7f1ad7_760421be0b1a46e1a953bf5ed8e51fe6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a6132035-7465-4fe4-be4e-2faa96c22dab.filesusr.com/ugd/cf950b_9596c7eb67204618a35fc74613d2e8c0.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_off0000e28e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28E 5772 bytes
SHA-256: 7b10c49816e9e9863cc61a7c316e69a09fc5174e298d9e34da181a7cf1172d67
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61C 11220 bytes
SHA-256: e5fc3e49445419e827ea885427ffd1c231964161fd5c1070a3675efe65dd554d