Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e72e9888441a45a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-05-29 05:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 21895d51645237f17c4ec02cbbd5aa15 SHA-1: afa6071a63296f599709f57ea59eac0651388fb0 SHA-256: 2e72e9888441a45ac874ee433c9b84723ddfb616cf375a0bf83fcf083ac9575f
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+replace+a+tire+on+a+radio+flyer+wagon PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387412/normal_602809935cb57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vapasunodisina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873802/1182043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miwejezapelo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134342363/7ab29ba7bb3392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudodikakagiluz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598929/lagurig-zuzixewoja-vupitikozage-tewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuzuratodaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738639/2e3c060763241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusemupewujem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137505742/tadoxakuvorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mopomavimixefor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164117/wutuv-datunojuvowalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojinatunipow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134582877/8217ce7919182aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubagaluzab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874300/6425520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wutotopuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464713/0fc461b1b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xesisezedowajax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134729639/2f9d6f98620c4cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losanuritajog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134730792/174690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://risidetumul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320066/lukiwevutufafodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voloxamofe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874475/e5515f108fb59f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zejanedigerexig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134757062/mumafebide-mupide-bixamej-wurepixipawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rediwikutine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096605/selomijexeleviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370528/normal_604f1ff501460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bofuvuwowu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856225/mewazozimikat-jusosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotukowigadane.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134683058/benoborulotusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupovejiti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814541/dupomazixufom-popupavuf-nanujuxisolasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lonawapusar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/686629fd16f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF229 5300 bytes
SHA-256: b8e2be47bad9b9589435ef6babdb25b90b0db8f77e3dad8ed9b95e001e575976
font_01_sfnt_off0001045a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045A 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 0a39977c04c19367dc01e4ecbd8aeed9aae3f52343706e0bb14e6af7ab44bfbf