Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10a58a4f876670a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 09:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9d6c63ead5b07e85971229b925cf570e SHA-1: d39f325aa4aa2046c784a8700020e7f18a075ca0 SHA-256: 10a58a4f876670a08189d101911a7356ba8bace24db5c0f0b92a64c8e6485316
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or spam document. It contains numerous external links, with a significant number pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to search queries, further supporting the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=what+oil+does+a+craftsman+lawn+mower+take PDF link annotation
    • http://witikotuxigere.scienceontheweb.net/dinovosugana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewukagazub.mypressonline.com/arabic_days_of_the_week_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiparebawiviw.iblogger.org/2007_honda_shadow_vt1100_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timogefubor.22web.org/how_to_reset_2gig_panel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xagelofitu.22web.org/dream_of_snake_biting_left_leg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/efb25494-b3d8-4f26-ae1b-58fba50903b4/sowejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gavobawum/sodidukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiwabafedazuv.epizy.com/ascii_code_table.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxomigo/78616132225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxejama.rf.gd/reduce_file_size_online_free_without_watermark.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0ba8c286-2464-48bb-86ea-c06d7471a822/the_phases_and_warning_signs_of_relapse_independence_press.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70fce7a2-8e3f-4299-9a76-af2731238c60/sitivomugolakapanobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93ba5e29-396c-4a2f-9e19-ae59b83f9dae/49458951966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b56bc8b0-b53b-4341-b35a-c870a705ce91/noxezumogejafuxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zupenafud/fractional_enlargements_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa2c98f4-f580-4740-8f9b-f6c20d87594f/48232627542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b1706aec-e9b1-4c6c-9a93-f14ef4a1c402.filesusr.com/ugd/3b47cb_f0303ee4102e429790c9f6c912df793d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gotimovogeminir.myartsonline.com/muwugifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ac685e6e-6442-44c0-91a1-b3a367e79ef2.filesusr.com/ugd/ce77c6_2a303e314dbb4b058bb759450a60be9c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nudagimanefej.atwebpages.com/rearrange_pages_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e229dea-1f83-4be8-8cd3-388eabd4f5e3.filesusr.com/ugd/1cfe37_53f766bfbb614ebab4a493b378e3245c.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_off0000ffd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD1 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 7775ade827326281cbae7bd1ad003a25e7c615ce7006d376d7ec73495ff1f90e
font_01_sfnt_off00011237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11237 11620 bytes
SHA-256: 4144fc8c1cfd549e7018aaa332d7fad24de674c638baaa9658060849acf0054c