Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35449b4392c3eb76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 20:19:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 000790e466a1a202c073f8a587664479 SHA-1: 403f2d168b2452c79ab55e03e1eb33fa4e5c82ee SHA-256: 35449b4392c3eb7603e6fcffbed8879ca0d31ea6ebdfb71c5a950b17d7938b30
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm and potential phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://maypoin.ru/aws?utm_term=how+to+maximize+a+window+using+keyboard+shortcut PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500201/normal_604a8aa5206c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366381/normal_6028162e5a73b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449783/normal_5ffd1c7fb0517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464873/normal_5fcdeae126b5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485801/normal_6030cae624609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504788/normal_602141b47da0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetakchantek.com/polaroid_onestep_600_land_camera_manuallqfrw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379615/normal_604a44573e121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ing-cliente.com/bepavanojipupapeem4zs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453326/normal_5fe6877d084cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475212/normal_5ffc6be9b5ba9.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/zuvovoxigumuz/zigotarotowibawabobeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_49a9685c7fa44e2bb98107dc0f22e90c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b01cffea-7a05-49e8-9781-04202a21c04b.filesusr.com/ugd/d5d855_432f39ebf48d4e3d85a1b0cef37ff549.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54fa812f-02be-41a8-aef8-4e129811e579/ham_iv_rotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/meludav/how_to_study_for_a_navy_advancement_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6816e496-fcf0-4161-8b78-e495b9700676/texas_association_of_realtors_commercial_lease_agreement_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pegek/purification_of_acetanilide_through_recrystallization_lab_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30621b86-6952-4b41-80af-4d24d830bc7c.filesusr.com/ugd/122077_94028b9cb70b458d8ac0af781666cc5d.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f19c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19C 5800 bytes
SHA-256: 355622de457164b71e33265b54945bb17aed7e5745af6a34c9bc5eacf67e0d67
font_01_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 8b0a39ff950cad396e1aa88e04468a3430cd9e33c5a72ccc670e72d0a6c0023b