Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22e1a59a8dac6848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2020-11-23 09:07:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fabc12d58602fbfc1f36e8b8b7beb5f9 SHA-1: 0676e494ded6712b4d9a5027a01735dae4b20a0f SHA-256: 22e1a59a8dac6848cf339cd7136d20486a83c46134d5e8ecfd8ed0ba8e27677f
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a link farm with numerous external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=you+are+the+reason+piano+easy+sheet In PDF document text
    • https://kupanonul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134682697/40a5e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447433/normal_5fad997ddbba1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lataladegizozav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685495/708678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377924/normal_5fb2a5a7db71f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodipewelo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637384/gagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/644d31b5-0a78-464a-8636-4327cbb12fc7/wolamijafixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ribowexulo/joining_report_sample_for_teachers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dezajok/51751939344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/posufij/56868970684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9ec39604-c855-4c1c-a7b8-978c6c9f24be/maths_book_class_10th.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luramamelolem/alimentos_anticoagulantes.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB6 4820 bytes
SHA-256: 64f8ac6ff37e894a14206d295365df31e030847133bb294b073dcdf8161a6cb5
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB14 10808 bytes
SHA-256: b9cf12b8b84f2949abbd3610927e593c04b7e482b9ccc69b2a6c17b1c0bc5201
font_02_sfnt_off00010faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAF 16100 bytes
SHA-256: d973db94ba2c448c661c26f08d051ac794e7cb4f3c7daa33c2141e8036f071b6
font_03_sfnt_off0001247d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3