Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22fe66ff8327b607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-05-05 19:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 126b5c752e096aa1fa2d9159b8b73202 SHA-1: c0d5a6772433aa7d36ac590fd7c12a927d782b72 SHA-256: 22fe66ff8327b607132c37d9e4118a8830513875259870ff80ae1344050a6de6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'English reading book pdf free download' lure in the document body, combined with the high number of external PDF links, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=english+reading+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gidowoji/Ajbsvgc/64569892426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpfs.space/tejemudivelq9njk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jenafowumavadas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437472/529ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beliyden.xyz/3866478313ybx5h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonder-ita.space/88762102906nytql.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonarupitowij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134617661/berububukatupegusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vengriya.space/jozuleveroviripubopanoxoyh8hi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zunesunatiri/Qhjictf/88974752261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-officialsite.site/modern_dress_designs_patternsug8k5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedezexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134342112/7294690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/valujoper/hehdjf3/popularmmos_lucky_block_race_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azalea.store/dosigixamagarime7ozj0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-shopofficial.site/734651377248q7jc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/feripamapuv/cISjfhg/33129691948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obmenkalnr.online/sizutumexufokx4nzs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/benibavagoge/yhakhij/word_with_friends_online_login.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bogovureg/XEggjOL/retro_boxing_prints.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/viwitukaz/jtij0nN/gestor_de_archivos_para_android_desde_pc.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://7292b199-6d7c-4e84-b646-7854114497ba.filesusr.com/ugd/53361e_5ac2e54ec15f491ebc1303e4ff4adbd5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4694dce0-4d1e-4c77-b4da-d1f025f82355.filesusr.com/ugd/fb332b_14d933cd9ee6492986829f11b22ad1a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3c8164-ddd9-4522-8472-457ce31ece15.filesusr.com/ugd/d32f78_72604ed968a9425c97dea908ccd047c6.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10153 5264 bytes
SHA-256: dd6de9def85e1361cf677bb59c1d562fba2e92a534ab7afb122176478823076a
font_01_sfnt_off00011328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11328 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 04b19c7460f497a9bd1b3f081f1ce93cf9d93056ebf9fa6d6e8286840d9917e8
font_02_sfnt_off000137c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2