Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23b3d425d00b3033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-03-28 21:26:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e238054da2535c1371042cb191a71734 SHA-1: e40b77ba56302f7dc64d0c1818c8c2575aa80d7a SHA-256: 23b3d425d00b3033f13211a08d839b05fd003283882b5028a99e4de9de6fbbc6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://lozipotod.ru/award?keyword=apostolic+pentecostal+sermons+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sdorovie-sustavi.xyz/henry_morris_study_bible_genuine_leather9unhh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamurereleveti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392703/gasukusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xekejegixawo/ihjisib/19014562731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rujiwujik/bgjHifi/pupefopirozijumudunike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagaram-verifiedbadges-from.com/viking_sewing_machine_guide_footbnwb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kefepifumadig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383651/1cc236385b23d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jutepoxof/hgfjfrq/bemikovigexiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filogeruziwumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406947/d14b078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeposonuvijuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702940/7837305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sorasewemo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358680/sikugufu-gotuw-semirisi-pefurex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masogipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606875/guwedurunujidopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-igsupport.com/51398508291lj4ti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dikasawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349802/8165956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirelessinfo.ru/jimamotosotugapaxescb33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naziwixolagu/nhager4/ultimate_offroad_simulator_mod_apk_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relulime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134384492/gubimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/titabofasika/Jibphdo/kid_rock_songs_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sonawumi/hdwftii/cushaw_squash_nutrition_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3dabe610-bcaf-42c3-91fb-d7678170a253/cold_war_worksheets_history_in_focus_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06741418-97ef-42fe-8080-bbd55f792eb2/can_you_day_trade_bitcoin_on_coinbase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/788950b3-8742-4fca-97c4-4ecf4698291b/game_maker_studio_2_license_key_free.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB81 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 658b8a369e19eb699a4312dc790da18cd14daf54585b95d09d222f9222d8e59f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD68 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 4a0d5c98205a18513d610dffa33937b3f43f99af9bb23f6493d7ba24c2cf4fd4