Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 144b894a908321df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.4 KB Created: 2021-03-30 14:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8ab3043799d9b09556c084eebf414a1b SHA-1: a91412321eaf936f919c1652756db3b377d9e736 SHA-256: 144b894a908321df2ac2ccd0c6fa945ee0e67c68531f56d970bb0ff8fee06348
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to drive traffic to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 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.
  • 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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+dependency+theory+in+political+science PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368485/normal_5fcdb8547e1eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493579/normal_6026692e85bf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavamabixalovag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525364/8edc3313a8b90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387033/normal_60356e8e70b32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450353/normal_605c705684b93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420915/normal_5ff8c7398a011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490752/normal_6013b0d27750b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405904/normal_5ffdc471be4c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377100/normal_5fffe80c67c7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropojagininu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635708/7802948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368984/normal_5ffc695e5440f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416132/normal_602f6ee9db328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vipinib/zojarivukisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2dbe2ff5-1d1b-44fb-97b8-31625506c9a6/how_much_does_a_vet_assistant_make_in_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0da988c-321a-416a-a854-08566c8f468e/nascla_contractors_guide_to_business_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05e0d4f8-02b4-426f-9c8f-b56dd72b3229/73478236660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc3a68ae-c600-4102-b275-45e22aa91b8c/puteralawuguzeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1838ae8-9490-4a10-af6c-741529a5e5f6/puzodonedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xazarujokemus/16044843772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e7a5e4b-e7df-4057-9a9a-10eaddb686b8/simibirugage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a15f971b-7961-4f20-b7a2-da06383eb3bc/how_to_set_a_watch_winder_for_rolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e55942bc-0728-4362-adc0-3a899c443a61/find_the_size_of_each_exterior_angle_of_a_regular_polygon_with_24_sides.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DC6 5276 bytes
SHA-256: de8646e23831f849edea74a2dc8bd62f70b1552dd82cf2558c4315a33ff519a2
font_01_sfnt_off00017fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FC4 13644 bytes
SHA-256: 6a784a17c28ef08d38ab0c37da309418ccc2539d821ad5b13eba8b070695e344
font_02_sfnt_off0001ab0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB0F 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953