Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 181a8b022614db70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 06:48:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: b2c652c3f9fe3bea1fc1d8a65c9831b7 SHA-1: ca52471746f9f669c0fe7eb140bd1464ed649176 SHA-256: 181a8b022614db701dd7a96cc939d2d6f045175081e2cbd9f69acb0a41648969
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to redirect to numerous external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/123?utm_term=cd+araketu+ao+vivo+1998 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/womawuxinuge/Thbjhn3/vejexumunebosipavexaborir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wifisef.medianewsonline.com/18799147092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danolanefute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873411/nonikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pidexijot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316959/b3ef57dd1b2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://katebobuwusa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384636/8c3bdb8c2abe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bejazono.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315558/numufopada-gotun-bekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vekuperik/etgf0hf/top_up_my_spark_energy_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jowetirepenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383619/3116963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujadadi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070572/rinozozus_pideme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zobilajes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/7c0bda5a81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lizowaw.scienceontheweb.net/tucker_high_school_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosafesixagosug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383933/mexisixine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xusozetogiza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620001/bejutili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fakokodatega.22web.org/34455270639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxiwemusemoj.mypressonline.com/stock_trading_for_beginners_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wofalexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697980/rowulutiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://silutopedap.rf.gd/breakfast_at_tiffanys_family_movie_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasopupifusatum.rf.gd/ejemplo_de_guin_teatral_corto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pufupivati.epizy.com/jotolezewajubajadatifofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wugujub.onlinewebshop.net/drug_information_handbook_2021.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_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 5040 bytes
SHA-256: ad07c1d14045d90ab728f5e1415a2820d3ca28234e4f2e86ebc01d3b5c22d668
font_01_sfnt_off0000f71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71B 13564 bytes
SHA-256: 463f8c3cab465c23c3ca34610be4e466e1a94b355edffa4756729eac056c24db

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