Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4451150f27b7175e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-05-10 12:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6016d1a55a8b7e88b54ccea599ab6a54 SHA-1: 222f4a50b323b161876c6ec6e4d95fbb4ca221b5 SHA-256: 4451150f27b7175ed562653b0e4303c733dca24459dbcd6346ec798ba147dd5e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. One prominent URL, 'https://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=chicago+manual+of+style+bibliography+generator', is flagged as a redirector for a 'free-download phishing' lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the links suggest an attempt to drive traffic to malicious or manipulative content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=chicago+manual+of+style+bibliography+generator PDF link annotation
    • http://xoguralelufilo.iblogger.org/87901278473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://widonatozeg.mypressonline.com/85295881848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gukiduwonaxinef.getenjoyment.net/11780436750.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/tuxenipup/boiler_efficiency_calculation_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sidepojedava.myartsonline.com/marine_corps_physical_fitness_program_mco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40e214c1-1950-44e8-a195-e2c6eeb23253.filesusr.com/ugd/a517f4_9efbdf765fc546faa02db9892fa26f88.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://14864a69-2465-45da-a912-c6f78a3f99b9.filesusr.com/ugd/409ca8_d3937c4e462f4c36aedb0911ec955e0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://466f9527-ada3-48b4-ac0c-4ba5546996ca.filesusr.com/ugd/a4b6b9_1ed0d3ee76a04a0cafd35641e386927d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://178fd8f3-986e-459b-a431-83c1f58eadb8.filesusr.com/ugd/7a8e82_41333ad28dc84033b9e26db372e523e8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3a5aa097-47f9-475f-9992-83bceef25cc3.filesusr.com/ugd/f55bec_af741425231e4aa285611e9d489bbf11.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jujadodedaruxix/ahpra_registration_form_overseas_nurses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mokamoba/70223755965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8458b573-1d6d-478c-912c-b10a972f31df.filesusr.com/ugd/150112_49fcdb7eb9bb4e348e92a42e45055e7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xuzatazuji.epizy.com/transition_words_paragraph_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nezanurugega/16183076221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://720c7b34-a033-4bf0-83ea-6be17de98aa2.filesusr.com/ugd/03ef8e_f933b938a9c84e50a755a8cffb5f560b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://serefelotu.epizy.com/qurana_afaan_oromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ed821ec-8078-4e74-b11b-c5cec6a88262.filesusr.com/ugd/65e777_95555815745045308253a7684bfcac8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifedefujodu/98863836123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gebukil/ey_indirect_tax_guide_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muwomapotumugi/8987692811.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_off0001413c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1413C 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 3b5354093f74bef4088b9704c1fe15d223d8aa7c4d8c4214adced347e38e8e6e
font_01_sfnt_off0001540e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1540E 11200 bytes
SHA-256: f96232495dfe6778f0bb094768036fe2bd75d626f78cada25d2587d775a55402