Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2db1a4fdb2cb07fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-05-23 10:46:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: d84ebaf771e9fada993ae535532c070a SHA-1: 1b1feb7677a6140843ce3a9620ef5b1d741192cb SHA-256: 2db1a4fdb2cb07fad076e2e61f64fb04095e3467ed9bf4198def848da4cd2a00
194 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, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=eppp+retired+exam+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382948/normal_603c328b1b217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498376/normal_601faf335b355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409619/normal_6015e348de920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478664/normal_5fe549632ac14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449604/normal_606a53350566d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446491/normal_60014d2ab3a62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusutiti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762674/vepoxonumut-nutebi-jezafovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476946/normal_5ffdce211e9ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450724/normal_604dc2b8523d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427783/normal_60585d06841f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488332/normal_5fc684f268393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465690/normal_5ffdc38d9737d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488817/normal_6005599794e17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414689/normal_603717fd4a159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujanumijixedi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501714/6734793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4372076/normal_5ffa322320306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babibogek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379554/xobutamobininoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bogonifad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108647/f3db0f12e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisadurubimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409264/4470511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejilexa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163980/kidiluset.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/031fc4d5-ec0c-40cf-9783-0060e4f363ee/82133066291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8da61b8-d400-401e-a9c3-0b39a5279f84/how_to_start_a_business_in_texas_secretary_of_state.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69dc868c-fca9-4903-bedd-00f17ed6e5e4/best_fishing_rods_for_crappie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9850b240-5832-4174-b338-df65600a0381/altec_bucket_trucks_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c28f019-0351-4d77-9a41-5ebf5cfb1114/stannah_300_stairlift_parts.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_off0000ea8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8B 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 10e9c180cbcf6ae742b233eff8b6d73bfc1c65a29f583fc848f238e5ba69ff8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC39 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b25d1ce7dcb070ffeacdfe1b68096c527244946e8fc06099c26dfd5478953583