Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 262982758a127dce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-03-28 20:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d121710f0d03e0fe5341c0162d4630b9 SHA-1: 15ac0f1d5ec37119bc8ce8cc9365dcca8835a266 SHA-256: 262982758a127dce81a781541537fe1a057dfe21a8299c64c478752615f174d5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farms or phishing campaigns. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=discipline+and+punish+foucault+google+books PDF link annotation
    • https://bativazuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969541/d43613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xikubafol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134607040/de60f3c7df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376878/normal_6022c53a9db5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xutonipojoneri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134667901/be960b50e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sugokumorol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437576/runiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavito.online/kagorvtwqv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nudiwosesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317077/e725fdf5cc890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsol.xyz/suwinopofadafuradujosod5pz2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raligeledow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893256/sarado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masenajeronuzes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637464/1af775d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jexuleni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637506/5270099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477376/normal_5fd1ff0c38f65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tijezelaxupoki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135340387/bapujadigi_saroxulasid_lovavubefimun_janolupifegofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459916/normal_602bdadd2aa09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nunovoxiwanafuz.getenjoyment.net/does_ozone_make_good_bikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401540/normal_600c35eb44bef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizudabug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134722823/8096461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavurefeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/kekejadigatijog_dowerikov_wobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzer.atwebpages.com/batman_arkham_asylum_book.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_off0000da2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2B 5524 bytes
SHA-256: ac72bc66139f76e199bd75b478f8523a523d4543a0805781f49bdf1ed6720573
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF6 10060 bytes
SHA-256: c955d95597d5185894927311512d0a06e137efd12331ef3baf73114cc4baf6fe