Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 108fcb55adfbf3c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-03-25 02:59:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 093735264c4468dccf523d925b1016e4 SHA-1: 17c7c6e911fb6110644ce805d950965ebe0baee9 SHA-256: 108fcb55adfbf3c4f7784056adf7899a6cc626c01330dda6a93293505c6f0ec7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics point towards the use of embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=crack+fighter+bhojpuri+movie++mkv PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kazaluxi/jeEhjij/10549910200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-verifiedsbadge.com/loi_binomiale_exercices_corrigs_terminale_esict5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manaxupupili.iblogger.org/sample_agenda_and_minutes_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smotrikino.fun/pdf_file_converter_apk_download9uoww.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrovk.xyz/65828150420fn04x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorefevobo/emhdifU/coin_pusher_game_locations_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zezajezo.epizy.com/indeed_career_guide_finance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerepigov.rf.gd/risiwovesajigofodulute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2749f14-ccac-4304-974f-1f53a3b23600/dunkin_donuts_stockbridge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelawezup.rf.gd/buddy_malayalam_movie_video_songs_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f2fb29c-15f2-4b08-b525-3eb91a7f0a41.filesusr.com/ugd/c3548c_f0a5f412d33c49e4a1f04b06ae4ff531.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52858aab-4138-4461-a599-a7d8c0c0626f/sony_bravia_klv-32w622g_32_inch_led_hd-ready_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f0a60e6b-66c2-4c30-882d-80bc130efcbb/wikuximanotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3a0e503-c89e-44e2-947c-b3a56729a793/what_is_the_order_of_fifty_shades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidokimutuju.rf.gd/98481529413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piveduto.rf.gd/gimp_mask_image.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a3de454e-1598-42bb-a259-4eb69c42f179.filesusr.com/ugd/fb5067_05bcd1e727fc4b35a2f5390bd4314f10.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_off00010c58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C58 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 2e91a0ca021a77a86115247503eee10cb5fff34874bf09a5868aa8ad36cb54b4
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED5 11284 bytes
SHA-256: f804b3b4be5ffb1f621cb0297c0c3f1693eeb460b9df3542b5944b63adbee1f6