Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332fe562dcb064ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-20 17:13:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cd7b3dfa822ea63067a62bd8d490bf11 SHA-1: 5767928bfeffe98de53b8196290ceb1e154cee6c SHA-256: 332fe562dcb064ffa3078b59763b1d54ea9319c8873c01d588fe3e7a770d6111
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wix?keyword=2004+toyota+avalon+service+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nikadarax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585483/708a082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigabededonekan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740374/gawewusu-voxikum-telimidusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384471/normal_5fd85d0bde7cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuxewuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134776055/c6e50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libotavod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813055/webasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenodajeto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490943/dupike-pelijujujuzu-lutukedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bilanogakiw/OO1Zjhc/fupusekofujijodutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479460/normal_601b28f54afe7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nefakovuwot/gjWgfy6/54181899065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gupawupigawono/fb_lite_free_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a97be2a3-bfb5-42de-bba9-b145341b31aa.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2860_720fabd4cdc449ffbc51d757425e1920.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da06a153-85fb-439e-a2cd-91e8bcc9da91/how_are_chemical_formulas_determined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://356bbf58-84af-4bff-99a9-d03346e46411.filesusr.com/ugd/b5472a_c024eeed005b43858f6cc3e7f1fc0fa9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a3de454e-1598-42bb-a259-4eb69c42f179.filesusr.com/ugd/fb5067_6d54c13d904842f08d061201da6545d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leteraxewe/free_time_activities_vocabulary_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bepukuba/petsafe_rechargeable_in-ground_fence_receiver_collar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8287c791-462f-427e-b138-b11c2c8c9fc1/61995992458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21772253-f3e6-48de-a69b-ea2b3c667242/16397319269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3495004b-33a6-481a-983c-59302eb8fd55/8-1_skills_practice_geometric_mean_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jinotugiwomo/jozosalowosuturikuzogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f804e3a-d2c9-45e9-8730-c776575724db/dummy_coding_explained.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_off0000ef0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0A 5728 bytes
SHA-256: cea90325cc7cb68cb99c31e2bd7f8cf8df2d1380fc423a70268eeb99e14476e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001028c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028C 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 25e07d4340da4b1314fa893be046f2743ef555137340077fc6341055761c5d02