Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28992296bd093842…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-03-28 09:36:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 168f9ea7c07e3112a6e195e806ebbc5c SHA-1: 41170f6df21f34cbcf3203bdba975d9187cd8887 SHA-256: 28992296bd093842ca742d53982d0464433a599689456b83d7cfffa7de1c42ee
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating it is part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=curso+de+viol%25C3%25A3o+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418973/normal_6041ab43d4a93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimavuvinidet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397938/29146d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tipefimex/dmiasgi/98743595975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupapuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726568/tabidegejadukusapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vabedesi/jjUIjci/freeze_heart_procedure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muwitajo/Tihilxk/dazalovumakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377098/normal_603421fa91169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losulojer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739206/6267160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479710/normal_605cabc3c629a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovatagemi/gi85hgz/mosquito_sounds_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvitolivudiru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712253/9295095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sogefuluf/387hfha/nascar_heat_mobile_money_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarajifig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710715/megekekijadozo_kamelereba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cc6d8859-fc08-4100-a073-55b48c5addfc.filesusr.com/ugd/238140_87f80ed7d0bd4badb782966cef8a063c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pigolo/built_in_functions_in_php.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://70848fb0-0fd0-490a-9360-2ffa38fc212c.filesusr.com/ugd/08e331_deeede2bcfd54489ae73c710cd6473c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8bbfbdb8-1895-4472-a1c6-9e834ce25a60.filesusr.com/ugd/7deb27_c727b61f61d2433481f7c005776fd01e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0df6220b-9630-4647-aab6-0d9db69b9d59.filesusr.com/ugd/8b97dd_73eb2c3f9da441e08939e92d08095f90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://01d7ec8a-e38e-4e33-8c76-1be31754498b.filesusr.com/ugd/24d943_de5eed70e0424a44802462cefc14be5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazifozixawus/68569078783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1c019786-7048-4615-837a-ae53f087c4ae.filesusr.com/ugd/8b4172_59281f4c24c7491ba6883668a190a0ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisegilupuf/16198550343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/numegubowalonan/dewalt_planer_dw735_drive_belt_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ac25a69f-a984-4293-9c3d-8c9e0f062535.filesusr.com/ugd/cbf077_63269edbf1a2493899f9f0d5cd5dbe30.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirofopafu/65119649951.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 3636 bytes
SHA-256: b84d631fdf5fd9e2d74fbcec062c644c6df4b3b49e3bfb887826c272aa078659
font_01_sfnt_off00012687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12687 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 51b3e75b629e215a288bcdb95d37f2f87cf01840a15b36aca96e620f6d0cc1c5
font_02_sfnt_off0001387a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1387A 14720 bytes
SHA-256: e70685cbbb10220dd1ca0bf40e2446598ca8fa296d8c4fdb41f2fa7e3ce58c12