Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40c443a2e3919109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-03-27 16:28:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: dfa2657eb2739cc2f3436d0373afbd2c SHA-1: 6adf1b0d3d50c2a2a8659777b288733c448f0cc2 SHA-256: 40c443a2e39191096dfec73a9d866bdab0a84bcf633f5a079c016052a01b8011
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with a significant number pointing to disposable hosting and potentially acting as a link farm. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search results or redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external URIs points towards a redirection or phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=add+text+to+pdf+file+python PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/libibajuzumu/ididfyu/58995023457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadosixajobirug.mygamesonline.org/dizoselevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedatidigog.sportsontheweb.net/zotonamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zimopaji/hbgghfz/xbox_one_gaming_chair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369909/normal_5fc7cbaa6a39f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/labifikup/bjiJ1ic/pandemic_card_game_expansions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fikakutipid.mygamesonline.org/burdah_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455195/normal_5ff4a04613dce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428045/normal_60183e27b981f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gejupajo/hgu6Ogq/rerebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiwujumejuf/pAQhhgh/77341762051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tazuxalana/jojjfGN/3484451584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dagozuwemep/zaijhgi/duxalufowunabomaxile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406775/normal_6018eab6c3a50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f02decfa-5148-4f49-bc2b-1f77a0f49446/rudopopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zirutabu.myartsonline.com/blue_jackets_reverse_retro_jersey_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e58ecc3-fe9c-4c0b-88ff-97e7409bdb47/dd_3.5_favored_soul_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cece0dee-4cec-4650-bbce-4c8fa6ef4c88/how_much_is_a_2011_bmw_x6_worth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1fa0cf4-c367-43f8-8b96-dd009711b4c0/atomic_structure_worksheet_complete_the_chart_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f16259b-a9b4-45e6-9eb3-f9551a8e6790/dukojolajulozuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70fe4882-5f81-4743-aeed-3a2e2e50ebcc/puvelojeniwowijuwawopukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac168311-b231-48fe-abb3-ae1addc80b24/the_singer_solution_to_world_poverty_counter_argument.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_off0000f0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 39e596a11bc17a2259dc792ccac8c99bc66556845e74b0aa486a52f972c8a582
font_01_sfnt_off0001015d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015D 11728 bytes
SHA-256: da135b5987a4800a56834a73aa7bb5bea98539ddfc03aa6e11492b5eb7d7124e