Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 116e34883c1fe1e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-02-28 19:15:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 72abe754d7a5ccaa06133fba7213776a SHA-1: c56af7d1d6b4db27677cfad4cb0dc8b824566b26 SHA-256: 116e34883c1fe1e810d3e70f4cd1473a557a5ed001dfa211953984afafd55f21
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a malicious lure, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=journal+of+international+medicine+impact+factor PDF link annotation
    • http://liketime.fun/the_phases_and_warning_signs_of_relapse_independence_presssq7sl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italywow.info/python_list_comprehension_create_two_listsklo6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/menasimax/gaVhiiM/can_you_escape_50_room_2_level_14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446270/normal_6011006bd61a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1freedom.space/zitaxepinapunemasul6m8sq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100naturals.fun/how_heavy_is_a_55_inch_samsung_tv5pdq0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://card2card-perevod24.site/auto_reply_for_whatsapp_business_apkunl61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lorotukogof/jqhehed/sedukukagolikuribizujuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449185/normal_6028a9d828d39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://present-mag.ru/tcs_employment_application_form2g0i2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gulizate/OCjeS8e/iraq_invasion_of_kuwait_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://persequenteamsohbet.com/bamezojilunavuturarijudd5j8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uuuuull.space/tirowapate4vm4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenolgia.buzz/32613368650m77km.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449177/normal_5ff65ed609da4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begdas.fun/99468371337cryh3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393898/normal_600d06ffb1ee8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urologo.store/trials_of_apollo_book_1_charactersjel9o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/walamalesumi/d8SLRQU/57760331633.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
    • 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72B 2872 bytes
SHA-256: ea18d12de3b231b305d916e97a9b3fe700a81a38429b6dccd25d7533a54d13f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF167 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 67558ba6669cc8bf322ed9723ba5ee5f46d8100bb421fb2a24bfcdb14d72c39f
font_02_sfnt_off00010248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10248 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 84c512668e9ca31474a497d7a989adfa7274b7eab34cd5c15d206672578ca0fd
font_03_sfnt_off00012855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12855 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 16841cd06245dfab0499788473f9c5e49459ecbf5940b4b59b8708d0fa28d68c
font_04_sfnt_off00013d99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D99 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f