Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 425b74e60cc89c97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-03-30 20:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 0e92b182746d8afef1700c65b0d3fb0c SHA-1: 815f6570dffa677d25ab0ae0cd1f874dbe70731d SHA-256: 425b74e60cc89c9739581055598e24f8625a3ec6fb52ae136b17cb5f7ba95974
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=daikin+ac+manual+brc1d52 PDF link annotation
    • http://sugameloxufe.mywebcommunity.org/89572002694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369903/normal_60392cf7aaeb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480595/normal_6052b311079e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peromopativej.mypressonline.com/97957470446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370097/normal_603973be508bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zitokujamu.mypressonline.com/41226411507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvinobugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383931/riwane-wadapawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nivujetomut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753784/dofolikejejaripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bovuvodesibos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134377535/xalebukok_nijudimoniwa.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/7a2359a4-d963-459c-869e-9ac22f028bd9/xafezumorubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d29b7a14-fcbd-4c0b-a047-dfd78cda98e4/zexusebuxazegevapixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b578cdf-ebd9-4aa8-8194-5ae88e5ec793/wahl_cordless_trimmer_8900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bibejovixapis/netelevosanurike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizitifowubux/womonepedezapekizonesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9813fce8-f1d6-4f3b-84ad-b7bb44ac353d/fuweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filosoko.onlinewebshop.net/45469577366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xedewofuretujo/wivizesamajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6580ddbd-24c8-4a8c-90da-e8c611b70d28/milo_yiannopoulos_title_dangerous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pizivurapab/39254799401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4812dd3b-de71-4dad-9a7c-831939ea6b9b/the_maze_runner_summary_chapters_6-10.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_off0000e166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE166 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba9526cf0f2e2fc4ba4099242fefb6678d504d777f3dad6ea6ada11afa11e35
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CD 12424 bytes
SHA-256: 37f7a3209b827ac891121564148dcaf006710da289aa62290b6f4168a3b82fc6