Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d2850e9a9bb385…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-03-10 00:21:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: a1fb806f2a0a9463f3a898976085f4bd SHA-1: 19cc623f5bfeb19a2fc8a00d12b5446a5b7b0681 SHA-256: 32d2850e9a9bb385d37a72e9526e22fa3ae1a9d71504227354890dd43f7cfd41
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards a malicious workflow, potentially involving JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=digestive+system+diagram+blank+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414161/normal_5feb6e4b63a96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotuposa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406283/473a514b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501204/normal_5fc5b3bceb850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nonatedogo/jeDidBE/puvozisojuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/legikowe/xjihhx3/idle_tap_racing_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zugemenelil.medianewsonline.com/pallet_jack_cylinder_repair_kit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donedupefunesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607777/badimidula-wasaxokegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gapidegit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379699/08185913c89c27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xerejijasoma/ghMijiI/tisexutovutaxadiloloruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ropikenetu/j3idgiA/condado_vanderbilt_hotel_beach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevakevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400716/bazazawo-fibow-xinefavemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wejowadizabudex.mypressonline.com/10144122304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391634/normal_5fcf31ef11a66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xovodozavaso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069890/kokisinetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/derepinejabi/UL3hgPm/firejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27d763bc-a36d-411c-b8b5-d1bf2b5e3779/thomas_ligotti_the_frolic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1bcafa4a-6b8a-4a21-a4f3-a188d005caa5/the_crown_season_2_episode_1_actors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11c1183f-0baa-4a34-94f5-307adbc35dcc/vanity_fair_outlet_stores_las_vegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropuba/zukusukegewonirarovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kitakilesa/26672997406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f861ee2-cb09-466f-954c-fbdff8942f4d/how_to_use_nikon_wireless_remote_control_ml-l3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gumagabu/25989222838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d0d8ce0-62ce-4d09-872c-e56498f67de9/tumibobitofoxalujalisi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF017 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 8428818523f034d1d2d7816e6c06a9508359020349738d07c814d2c6286b9b65
font_01_sfnt_off00010263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10263 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 926789a4c95f1ca6f31db3ca6d89837c38f71bb98da205625a118811201ccb66
font_02_sfnt_off00012578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12578 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3