Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 226f0abab839aa83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-03-30 20:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 348e3f99c7036a7430d48b5f1ef03c70 SHA-1: eca51e2fc4fabf6c52067aa9db0cdfcabdf922c0 SHA-256: 226f0abab839aa8326ab338e8ac6f99430a73f229c4ba7a59e0f3931d4781925
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to various PDF documents. The heuristic firings, particularly 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM', indicate a non-standard structure designed to host a large number of links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=acordes+de+teclado+de+canciones PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419236/normal_5fd663866c1eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/feketukadoz/jhOyyhf/90471624644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zogobadakedu/v8gfpge/399545738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451551/normal_604dd7e114fad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ionatr.fun/english_grammar_in_use_full_apkfhy8v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sale-siberian-force.online/the_warlocks_hairy_heart_analysish2uc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmarker.fun/13654635099ytb7t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mofumamivuzav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070192/vebijim_bogipafunipumiz_lugafatedotaxex_tetajikidojukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375509/normal_605f56c2616dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatevesigar.online/how_long_is_the_texas_driving_test1hgf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jupozaregu/CPdjehk/buttermilk_lemon_pound_cake_recipes_scratch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403960/normal_604ab0c704f1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoorama.fun/rusisaripotivap1lh6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sisamide/2h50Tig/wooden_sofa_set_designs_with_price_in_pakistan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408471/normal_604d10f41a507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/riwifesineji/FUgdJha/43255641675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421051/normal_60057de6b02c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavifarexup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134611028/porotevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofemazavuson.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303373/8668278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403274/normal_5fd82026d06ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rizikodeni/gZMlrJX/rekutaganezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zenipijujate/dbhjgeV/unblock_credit_card_icici.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000103c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C3 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 2afef680e6d9c20f45738ba1d26dd7a0a5d8b1b9338e1505b114223fd28ba8ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001148c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148C 12640 bytes
SHA-256: fa0da0f678fdb3d7a7a36d752c0f52c7997ac2639b9b7727c8f09a7280367b66