Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4462bd14e0734f67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-03-28 17:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 254c97bc694adf830d421402585645c4 SHA-1: 6dedcc2b105c688309ad23fb62c6644f9fae5042 SHA-256: 4462bd14e0734f6759ad20681154cf009f50d518078d74d9e8d44dd12ab954c1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate it's likely used as a delivery mechanism for malicious content, potentially through a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=dsc+alexor+programming PDF link annotation
    • http://dakisemakegag.sportsontheweb.net/boy_meets_girl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kafofal.mygamesonline.org/7888302533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pibigetikuke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387636/e310329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razavojukuraw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136090857/sefotow-fupatipobo-bitoravipudamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixunadegu/iakhcTA/89428379648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girawosanisab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740609/gelul_lupezavafe_dewekaxeg_tivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabidiwamudobav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299897/kevogufoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovativegapok.getenjoyment.net/jazujafapori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dinozijumuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315767/cb1492a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaboliwup.mypressonline.com/paduzinixulabibujarofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kumajevebak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856027/1ed6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misujupino.getenjoyment.net/bitasemumijekelexupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vemetafije/haeFNgi/trending_hashtags_on_instagram_today_in_nigeria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vosaxoro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134469305/vuzedufiwodefig_bivedexupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vunebapenuj/VciehdP/piggy_book_2_chapter_3_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surevasod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856145/17a5d7efcc260.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/2290aeeb-2d29-45ed-ac71-4464ba48b696/betuwutolabuxizegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kakef/28547334978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zowibatev/samenesipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nonabafat/big_green_egg_grill_for_sale_used.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mokixetat/best_book_reading_app_for_android_tablet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e276263-f531-4128-b5ce-17a8084bdab8/frys_first_100_sight_words_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9bfae796-8926-4f22-9f98-3c105bdbd41e/vekasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/025fb6f5-4ea5-4833-b52e-644a1d83a539/the_purpose_of_writing_a_personal_narrative_is.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bdf04db-125d-4cd7-a14c-75ae1650b4d7/prevost_h3-45_fuel_economy.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_off0000e69a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69A 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 028da66657698ebf2023583f327e2c28cf455221e22c7f9cf0b43b061367e6e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AE 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 2dfe3dc67567ac2068d019965bde6096427a5cb1f8ef0cf4e45b70c948d2bfbe