Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37e516a7d4bee70f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 10:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c9c64886258b2e9546c72efadcc9a9ad SHA-1: a8e5a29435abac9f19349a28366313f283f9dc35 SHA-256: 37e516a7d4bee70f6267769bd5a485dd830839bfe807ea0aecc5f4d922270bb0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to drive traffic or potentially lead users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the PDF's structure strongly indicate a phishing or SEO manipulation attack pattern.

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://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=machine+design+an+integrated+approach+5th+edition+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408323/normal_5ffe46cc5fb10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470542/normal_60c23d11334bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371003/normal_5fe485b4a457a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://judiwufafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999980/menajosuwasiro_zakunomuxelegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobefadapuxat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134858353/texuduzawij-tiluzoxepuxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368481/normal_5fdc1b0a25d23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resevaguwitim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298688/86040f54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikijeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465371/7270671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478408/normal_60c21ac70dc25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jepopiravu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131497/devijipijesem-kilumuvar-jugorudoxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380384/normal_604b46f1c392b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459929/normal_5fc99bb5254e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puvedevedumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406841/jivuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lumamiwaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134735329/bbb90aa4dec3003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fatakalewene.pbworks.com/f/factoring_polynomials_practice_problems_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopidix.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145085079/weight_and_height_chart_baby_girl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fokopaviwu.pbworks.com/f/chatbooks_app_crashing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dazokarodu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144788307/6536479973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwezebom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144700854/63263945919.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_off0000e057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE057 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 2140a8083ed783a5dfc87f82f1679f1d6bdcb93ef4f4650f487561e5b23c0c59
font_01_sfnt_off0000f324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF324 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 26893bc502d0d6444f0a8588b0f6e6c1202aa50444c270f224d25f10bed5fdc7