Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2655153597784582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-04-09 13:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5b36b169ea9c763c5566d208cee4e720 SHA-1: e647a47b428311af2acb4a37df7b29ae5cd5710e SHA-256: 2655153597784582641aeeeec447e71c8879e5855bc82191cb864c8be244c480
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 of which point to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=bass+guitar+chord+chart+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekidase/l7hlUie/fokojutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wujamufaw/eigleCs/18452542946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trudogoliya.online/96138054934z5qol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bemovunilupo/nicy5je/breitbart_news_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasegibuniz/eVchf7S/sharechat_hello_app_videos_download_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wexypay.icu/walmart_tv_black_friday_canadapxnd4.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/d13424dc-dfdb-4b2c-8f63-3dc1de43385f/21867510347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17bb0056-5407-4b9d-87d6-14b66ef49fc3/wazavavowotudekinolowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b7d1bc8d-ec3f-455e-85c5-916be26abc90/faledokikotuvorulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77047a80-9f17-4504-a563-a097c25ca12e.filesusr.com/ugd/5c8b2f_e25382f3e2bb4bc9a242cf80bed00d3a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8eccd3b7-fb20-4588-a5b5-4d8c58591879.filesusr.com/ugd/0e6328_158429a20ca14f4c87e8ab66ad7ee6cf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b249058-8999-474d-b33b-91678e13e969/mimitizuvuwegadawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://88749095-6fd7-453f-8e8a-15b48fe47dd1.filesusr.com/ugd/e4d7df_934480fd0d394942800053e32c1a5ea9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4e33067b-0f13-4bed-bb9c-ea95f768fd7c.filesusr.com/ugd/23924c_6b4b85ace26543e0b4d80e67da8c8767.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://631ffb88-cf2d-4844-8d6b-9338a1b21cc5.filesusr.com/ugd/d24e6f_be8809b127f945e8bf0c087b62af9cb7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_ca58a8b1e32d433583fc4d933349beff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fe7befb-dc87-4e25-98f7-31265b0b4619/what_does_the_free_parking_mean_in_monopoly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_6258f8677ef24a5bb8986c346d3e5a9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d848e4b6-662b-4424-a759-963270729452.filesusr.com/ugd/30e015_779dd989754a4df9b4a61e360e68c415.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c63359c4-faa5-40af-ad11-254ddd3d100c.filesusr.com/ugd/838c33_04e87bec1992429eb0cb042ff9c38dd6.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 68aaadc2dd2d6e090ef306d1fb141bb3465b84fdada1d870af2d685c877dcf11
font_01_sfnt_off000106c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C9 10832 bytes
SHA-256: b24e338a79c5bbc718ac40454ca44e9c377bafc2bbc9b5ff06e78e4c8d7cd86c