Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db0854f882c9ea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-02-28 07:00:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 148a67b8c7a81fdbfd348070f6d149d2 SHA-1: 619eebf8f4fab950c9836ae253f97622c94b8c6b SHA-256: 3db0854f882c9ea8bfd36cff90179515bf373767705a0b790b50f8ac68b7d3fb
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or spammy websites, possibly as part of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=how+to+learn+chemistry+basics PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465557/normal_6019d07a40dc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nemazuwigumo/Uid1iiv/pico_de_gallo_english_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lejesapazud/jcrkljc/try_it_on_my_own_song_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xazururoxe/6vmeSao/guzuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490129/normal_603ad25426566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kekulepolunan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889268/riroxegakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403806/normal_5fd610a03efa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padilokemim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381900/xuzefatonoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376850/normal_5fd0e71ada83f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nekuwagibajese.getenjoyment.net/how_much_is_a_mahindra_tractor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piwulag.sportsontheweb.net/painting_ideas_for_teens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pigalixow/hegjmeS/mask_of_the_plague_doctor_unlocked_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368760/normal_6016046fb0f6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xepidazezupos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135343087/08d84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fafojipedul/aibjiyh/who_moved_my_cheese_quotes_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosamaritaj.getenjoyment.net/36083613221.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/wibadinavosunom/blue_dream_shrimp_care_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fajonubinomeder/clock_icon_missing_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bufipevuril/poe_the_cask_of_amontillado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petojijoxura.onlinewebshop.net/divegawukusoxixomaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/peveziwoguxuzam/bootstrap_tooltip_html_template.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_off0000e3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C8 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 65f90d510d894c3e7eaf4c72e2e398352dcb6fca45bdce543f0848f930b20ff2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D0 10888 bytes
SHA-256: e095d405c78cb8a48be88d0b28568282dddc325a508408935dec203934ea1bdb