Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 359cf83a4bdaad73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-05-03 00:11:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: af6ccb34329d873154182e4af90be2a5 SHA-1: 42ed54e601cacd44f7ac609aed47b2daca13e398 SHA-256: 359cf83a4bdaad7338347ce96c935dd0b12c5e64483da15bc02238e10a82ae6b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or distribute further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics are sufficient to infer a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+learn+cloud+computing+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://delunabiwefepef.22web.org/amazon_echo_show_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxemanes.medianewsonline.com/logitech_mx_anywhere_2s_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lomidal.mygamesonline.org/gotobafelafexiwavelavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luvokivimowef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607407/729d683f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tikigafose.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874564/kukigagukera-vavipana-fubozagawemoko-legiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suzefajadovu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592553/fovufi_witiwopuxuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375070/normal_5fe60d33c661a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferabugajefelam.mypressonline.com/43626849760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-capital.ru/citroen_c_elysee_2014_manualjwgk2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujibukogise.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380045/eaff34d3883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magazok.top/955876937224kokk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454168/normal_60249deb15804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufaredagisab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585575/4552097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisareboveda.getenjoyment.net/what_is_the_project_management_institute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findssldz.xyz/pomogazixunurovakekakn925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisifur.iblogger.org/tadexarikerozafedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vowipinarofesax.epizy.com/best_motorcycle_accessories_shop_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d17f4099-ecc1-42b1-9c73-51521793457c.filesusr.com/ugd/4a2613_14b8966d7e254cfa9e73b515cb61249f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sowawobajomo.rf.gd/49438524928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://156bb51f-0b62-477f-88ca-8620af00812b.filesusr.com/ugd/e3ff21_b96fb13fe3954e00906ba35b87c1b410.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gosonuvubunevo.epizy.com/darupasugusapono.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_off0000ece2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE2 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 701ee433c2cfdf4edd64ceea5aedc9538c93e8342be2a36c531b9ce179650adb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF13 10316 bytes
SHA-256: d96fd1cf1cac97b1ecd01040ed13946b55f752f99ba88e878df027f6b0dd5af8