Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1294694baec50aed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-05-20 20:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 00e13f11b5bdb016441b87cfb31b0651 SHA-1: 97a3d82c59a9550b54e42ea314ded2c3c23a50b6 SHA-256: 1294694baec50aed91a60117eb1e0581ff67e66d7448cc6e0ec81ae792330d2d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to search terms for technical documents, likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/wb?keyword=solucionario%20mecanica%20vectorial%20para%20ingenieros%20estatica%209%20edicion%20pdf%20gratis PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393763/normal_606ade2d2417f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delujopasetew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134399242/loxexixam_zomagewaluge_jinururel_fatikawewegeder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486346/normal_5fefbd2017fe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475572/normal_600efc4d63005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojenejanoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739654/7e157120ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453891/normal_5fdba970145fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4406466/normal_5fc743cc1ccf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenosufude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455069/dukuzuvagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nofoxevejumumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857054/1bff6a2e770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367667/normal_6049cf20576d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485016/normal_5fd8232a94f2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390074/normal_6023ce651bf11.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/627508f5-8e9c-41d5-8098-373faf591c5c/vudokaxukimotajejumupuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d233b5fa-e66d-44e9-bd6a-b21a7903ba49/fifty_shades_darker_free_audiobook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wopari/woguseboneredimipixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/topipovikapari/how_to_use_a_country_hearth_wood_stove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dojivewobasuval/nifole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48a25cc7-1884-4387-b366-d28be641e6fd/vegobiwotejovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5aa7f83c-21dc-48e2-9763-2bab184cc154/12668270261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce9d9afd-3973-4f47-bfb5-72c2414c70ff/orlando_virginia_woolf_film_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe26cca2-c0b2-4321-ac99-33c932d5afb8/sivoxapalawegokitodu.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F8 5796 bytes
SHA-256: 326647e1155ecd6f4977df482825296f85f522655b51a00035158a2233656571
font_01_sfnt_off000108a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A5 12324 bytes
SHA-256: 48bb7f7c9ef1af52f915a2a13815c0403b7ef5f7792c58aa086ad906b500edd8