Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22e26da4d4affca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-03-09 04:18:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fc221e47a3473deca706c9cfc2400ce8 SHA-1: abf704bf5f9d238eb4b21a2bab4e69ae203e70e9 SHA-256: 22e26da4d4affca45703534e4babae7d2fe8c3c93f02b19470a6be1362f20499
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known malicious redirectors, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further suggests a phishing attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature are strong indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=sony+portable+dvd+player+with+screen+and+usb In PDF document text
    • http://dressnbuy.com/medieval_2_total_war_change_faction_namescwr8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rivojotewez/cPhhfod/kugeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getveran.site/first_aid_usmle_step_3_latest_editionglmyz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nurijodefa/aQS3eiT/92766472527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476001/normal_5fede496a798d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/boxokozofe/geTfbhj/furufupukoparobeseseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-bewertung-889562.icu/how_do_i_find_out_if_there_is_a_power_outage_in_my_areardqe8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494149/normal_5ff9eb6ee724d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likelid.xyz/game_horror_pacify_androidmtqir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b064d0e4-88d6-4b7e-8087-8ebf790fcba6.filesusr.com/ugd/ca32a8_5fe4bbd2d5be47a988deafdadcaa01c5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://959e49da-b405-4961-97d4-5c1bb2e9a628.filesusr.com/ugd/ab0441_4615c5d582114dc58ac83ac441120872.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac65beef-1c88-4b01-a948-251493ed82f2.filesusr.com/ugd/09857b_340408dca3f840459707024b3ff8a0d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d2b1dae-c014-4902-97e6-c3f1d56915cd.filesusr.com/ugd/70e5f7_35f0cb7e04eb4200b19f46cef592eb85.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e0eedba4-cf99-4c42-97f5-d3f9ae5832dd.filesusr.com/ugd/e36ea7_04e12da611684142930a7d16c6a31778.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e809654a-a95b-4dbc-a338-24085255a2f8.filesusr.com/ugd/1b6cec_293d99433ca1458fad70cc9aedc1b4b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f42f1f8b-b07f-4850-88e2-7551265aeac1/2006_mercury_25_hp_4_stroke_weight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c183b790-cb34-49aa-848e-1a9f2b14dda3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_49a016af401d4caeb202fd6c0145e08d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a172f49c-84cd-4e78-9306-2c012338253e/70458009953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e3ac93c0-3bd0-43b8-abe5-9d362768c419/27270679323.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_off0000e705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 1a60582d90edf1ec067f7b84db71df3ad792a6b111490c2ce7dddd06d7b9a1ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA55 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 98d185c15070da46aa6293d0dada3fc1c6445d6a3ee466602b3a43148cb1d58f
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC6 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ebd2804bff382343e08f6a42dc45f69f4e794c08b23908ae60ba78ededae74b1