Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297e6a42ae272578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-03-29 13:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 936eb82a810ab4bb03ce7f8a8d2a92aa SHA-1: bc8d62f6269f97fd190c09290b79de88cb567a44 SHA-256: 297e6a42ae272578d27730148c45d9bbc9a31d6ea4931237f5367c9fb0bbbc9e
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 pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=craftsman+208cc+snowblower+oil+filter PDF link annotation
    • https://gewujezugiwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754524/18bbb140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudodufutela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135960501/befofik_bezodumobunefe_nubevosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyponnik.online/fexokupajuzivuvejasekith6w2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xufotegebiv.22web.org/best_place_to_shoot_an_elephant_ear_bulbs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacecmb.xyz/rilerejiwibmvg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eslivdrug.space/order_confirmation_template_html_code29kzc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kusuxifitumaka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593182/677a7b4100a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instapriz.website/fender_mustang_floor_pedal_power_supplyexpd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allerop.xyz/what_drinks_are_healthy_at_sonicvoind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-soft-team.com/free_christmas_music_to_listen_to_online_without_downloadingzofxn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoorama.website/barbara_barry_sateen_sheets2dil6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneitshop.info/tc_helicon_voicelive_play_gtx_preset_list67yld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-verifiedsbadge.com/spotify_lite_mod_apk_xdafdp9k.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/aaafdd9a-9bfb-48b0-af66-fc9f4b511baf/the_devil_wears_prada_full_movie_netflix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5c0abb6-967b-4025-807a-ab66ae3a898c/phd_research_proposal_sample_sociology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b733466-f5b2-4968-ace0-cf847c560261/pavasupuxuvarimase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9415116-8f92-4183-8fb0-3af33df153d9/basic_mechanical_engineering_ktu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a244dcf0-b1ec-4f46-960c-c7aeb60c034b/52718461858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/064c424e-6def-4982-87fd-82181e943952/zenamujafujejesopodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/910e0695-9857-44fa-a0dd-d42efd700fbd/70025779669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxexulotubi.epizy.com/deductive_argument_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7463474f-75d9-49d4-b9cf-68097f0ce026/3195660077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reditavipesef.rf.gd/22nd_amendment_in_constitution_of_pakistan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/486c18d4-3de0-4347-a414-3312820616de/wekafadunobagidamanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3de6167-8c27-4557-b1c6-0ed73d9ea332/65781182311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nopuwezivobevuk.rf.gd/riwosivugafonesubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masatajomalopu.rf.gd/veregasavowumukafopegiro.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_off00011333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11333 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 28993fbd923b46547f9e51a08691f936a09b8c41b81e8ccc778e154e7cb5dddf
font_01_sfnt_off00012653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12653 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 0916d0568b475dcc95b0bef4b4375d715fd0e2d6b48b6367c89098bc8992b9dd