Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fdb1878080b8c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-03-11 14:09:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: f953bcf06209b8c26be66f38d1b62b50 SHA-1: bb4a17f2ffeaa1c528b6355f873948ebbf6cdacd SHA-256: 2fdb1878080b8c7234bb2a236a20f2966ccf5198bd3ee4e7cc7e81c1fb54bae0
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, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or hosting malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=intestinal+cestodes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504791/normal_60221e2e319c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durajonuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383269/jipuxobed_bagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454807/normal_5fe235f1414cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galovuxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134760431/d6e0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sezelijimofi/hijcDij/sportsmax_app_for_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384655/normal_5ff986a5d4575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/salenasova/oeiegd4/zukuzilomozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nafogoke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134776139/9473200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazojufez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134639306/4793246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386848/normal_6007da1d7c234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jibenapola/hbgjGiT/flying_car_robot_3d_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492588/normal_603cac315f524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zojalokavid.22web.org/baadshah_2013_naa_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lewanodeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885095/geduda-sepotebisoja-mebabataritod-mubebam.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/7697666c-bd04-4519-ad2b-02d9a52ecb3e/my_many_colored_days_poem_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85fc0914-20e3-4f1c-be8c-de7e6f89f47e.filesusr.com/ugd/a44510_dd26fa58a4aa42e19e0e9f9b631a5dd0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87609bf1-0df1-4fcb-a087-5113e3283aa1/arduino_programming_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e054c90e-6ec8-4478-8596-98041d85650b/physics_formulas_class_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e49cd12a-7e53-4a25-9f98-ae37b5ff2e44.filesusr.com/ugd/35dc59_946138702e9a455784c238ae28815ff0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c84a5eac-f026-4598-89d2-4290dba3fb6f/ruroguwunavawawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa53e508-d88d-41cb-897c-7a5b6f1bfcc3.filesusr.com/ugd/361045_df0e62c1a25e44559180e3b4d67c4dc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/511026cd-184b-4391-8c94-5d2348ff992c/uscg_marine_safety_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savikolapuxol.rf.gd/sirapotumopagesunaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://562c2315-396f-49d1-9e45-1236e049cb13.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0012_30b1929943c64422ac1a9d9925c32246.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12763 4988 bytes
SHA-256: a2b5c4777f23ecd1f990aaf39125b1c6c2b1b5a7ee2f1bb6922e1851781f48ca
font_01_sfnt_off0001386a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1386A 1716 bytes
SHA-256: b744d20329a21ba1921c870a4deaacb4064f710d75eb1a58e31c0067c31195cd
font_02_sfnt_off00014110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14110 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad71c8e45aa6f3183c69ec6ec20d64cff2aa6df72749b40238a2f9259d74dc5