Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c66e9d186fb1595…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-03-17 06:43:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 69fc0b3786f82c69f30af0232fb02f9c SHA-1: 140e17356d78ea1c3b592a97235daf2b7919d49b SHA-256: 2c66e9d186fb1595b39dd41f7e6d119195ee9c8cbce3fbcfeb5a3e73015f8d66
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. One of the embedded URLs, https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=polaris+magnum+425+4x4+rear+shock, is particularly suspicious and likely serves as a lure or a redirect to malicious content. The PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=polaris+magnum+425+4x4+rear+shock PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366957/normal_5fe947caa5e90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383929/normal_60339f3d3d7a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404529/normal_60065a7830d97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495039/normal_5fe34614c6109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370740/normal_6027632a7b79d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazhivy.net/24878527386ml8zu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axecheat5.xyz/what_happens_at_the_end_of_the_book_restartxzozg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigufuf.iblogger.org/39583526377.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/966f3d02-acec-4869-ba1c-3c7067bbf7f4/62256418396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxotenudiwuzu.rf.gd/mamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab6f899f-2f50-49e2-9272-5519d8cf60cc/59727617752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1238ea47-6d98-4cdb-acef-44a363923a41/resumen_corto_de_los_hermanos_karamazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9069da70-3f9b-4dd7-86a6-a0f15673f2ff/salizimevotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa9fb776-c316-4194-9c9b-e43980d2b5e0/what_are_the_major_parts_of_natural_selection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c78ffd2e-fc3d-4272-86ca-968d835fb7ad.filesusr.com/ugd/0f9ef0_75587188a8194834beebab97b9743362.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/965f27c0-3cc1-49e7-964f-923786f74626/53990781797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7f36b73-895b-448f-9319-280c6c558d08/14125675593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavogojewef.rf.gd/monexumupaxeparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48109b0e-b231-4bcb-b83e-bedc33266ad9/66612028234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7e005a1c-fb68-43c1-af83-b854b6a2d282.filesusr.com/ugd/dcfb95_4a74eb687e944bc2ab7e24ac2f0a9fb3.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_off0000d337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD337 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 0a282f1130e13d38acca792fa1c9c83c56fa289b51e40c5566bc739fcecbe86d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE685 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 7d72536454e23968b1c4335f9ec85ea40cd4419af363a7edb0a245851740f5fe