Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b3d5678e1961035…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-03-21 03:07:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: d1a96a969645724d05a742aecfadb88d SHA-1: 5bd4a0bb2f9096a30d31eb01d994b1d4a7ec078d SHA-256: 1b3d5678e196103568b8a1fd1251c7d039d07a8993cac8801ea1a8dd972db3b6
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 pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://midufefew.ru/aws?utm_term=where+to+donate+stuffed+animals+near+me PDF link annotation
    • http://idealicaitaly-ufficiale.site/123musiq_tamil_free_download77ken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saligoliti/ig2BCia/16398650439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1fps.ru/wheat_belly_baking_mix_recipeivuxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubstore.info/61952422023ewwco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nojebimit/ieKRwhh/relative_size_of_virus_vs_bacteria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotloveme.online/gonebizapabunpxgch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465709/normal_5fcc53e13be05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/koxopumo/gjiijwB/melt_chocolate_in_bowl_over_boiling_water.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zojixemem/jajaijm/among_us_invisible_name_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448116/normal_605012cd4ee5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465249/normal_5fc5f18cd6b4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rowagana/a3MgitO/bluejackets_manual_first_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/leluforeref/Zgeghc9/10277103915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/paxepedamaxa/gjg2Ffh/jigugulekamebenunorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bawijodol/pchd6Ow/basketball_shooting_form_stephen_curry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xoberuweri/9jevifT/874939764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outputqwvk.space/24232726845mjtzb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5b3a2631-baab-4d1f-8161-183aa5bfd7a2.filesusr.com/ugd/5dc2b7_8dd93fc6a3254b3780e645ada9d3699f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e6a48395-9ebc-465e-8505-c4b20d7b8e72.filesusr.com/ugd/81e12b_b603e715e0db47aaa375e7e8e72a7bb5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67dc9804-4028-4298-afd7-d431d2c16fe6.filesusr.com/ugd/559c84_bdc02b7338fb451e9f902be4dd9d0c21.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec5c17a1-061e-4a2c-a9e6-b3561ba71229.filesusr.com/ugd/299074_8216299de55446258a07739e4eb9e58b.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_off0000f839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF839 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 9abc939dbeafe301e6bf334c20d1c3e05691d3eb219d5a81c3899157b9aa4d8a
font_01_sfnt_off000109a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A7 11216 bytes
SHA-256: c4e92a8c38ab2025c0b9dde4500512068715cf1a5b7a68850476abb3a00166f8