Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26b138439d0e9ef2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 09:44:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: ec3365bbe2a83f3487993d7c54325e9d SHA-1: 7c5076eb5b29806ab1c38658ded1e518b2cb3eab SHA-256: 26b138439d0e9ef2e60abb8456dd87338556db6ab286ac623fdb57a260a362bc
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and suspicious domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF with high confidence. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are common for distributing further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=epson+wf-2530+driver PDF link annotation
    • https://wozuwonasanava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/b42852dd83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wovuwujofisup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856276/kegugumezometov_bejibo_dedafafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392877/normal_604952edd92a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lomagifotoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814873/rosuxifutejuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrt-64.ru/hacks_for_shell_shockers8dfhu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446499/normal_60358032db73f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459481/normal_600292df58ea3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449417/normal_5ffd56dacfbb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microbladingcertificationdfw.org/17497338950fbm3l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managerprogram.live/pabirukobakonosinuloxou0ufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449605/normal_600ea77504779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444100/normal_602204eb263c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienvozvrat.site/similar_polygons_worksheet_houghton_mifflin9qtb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullhp.info/advantages_and_disadvantages_of_payback_periodolok0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485579/normal_60396d7671bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airned.ru/what_are_some_good_books_to_read_for_adultsbwze0.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/4de48eef-90ef-40ea-a256-166502251ec3/11857296919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7a45d9e-c3ac-447e-9e96-92432234c52b/nobedunomafetele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b4f9209-f92d-49a8-a811-66dd6c028a9a/what_are_the_dimensions_of_an_apartment_size_stackable_washer_and_dryer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd1f24e4-5988-4a0b-bc22-fae8fc11e1e4/how_to_find_the_measure_of_each_angle_indicated_right_triangle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec8c2818-040d-491c-af7c-95cff6601678/chemical_bonding_study_guide_answer_key.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_off00010089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10089 5496 bytes
SHA-256: d8844bf4ae6e80bb2d7079ac24fed33e5d3f2e9aaa57a28bd83ebfde7ecd6185
font_01_sfnt_off00011385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11385 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 630de642c4f33e2ced41846274a53458bd2f0662d88e3fb161ac513ee42305d2
font_02_sfnt_off0001391c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1391C 16144 bytes
SHA-256: aa1464b36b52ac156dd3ea04bc30a94b8376eaa6838293fad627926ea8981a5c