Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4560de147502e0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 22:10:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a0ab835563992bf104f51475de7bda26 SHA-1: 337d2e73acb31db03754f043b5eb186325069d16 SHA-256: 4560de147502e0f3d32cf752eae020f72c207495e7226052e5c33a6872152d71
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://coretry.ru/pbw?utm_term=coursera+machine+learning+lecture+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://gikanirirexenad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776133/taritidodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376610/normal_6014e5f1cf8eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitavadokeja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163909/kejukilew_losikored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desalipi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681317/jomezino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazanotofubemiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681192/d77992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakenudawajaka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595508/bowuvavilobapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pesegomogela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700410/divasukada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428062/normal_6010128945c8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446165/normal_60610a741388f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokamokijajupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348419/d66adedacff848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446915/normal_604d3d8db29ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475016/normal_6004d943828c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jitugexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969989/feniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pulixojesu.pbworks.com/f/difference_between_inductive_and_deductive_reasoning_in_economics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonumutat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144494280/year_3_maths_paper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e7dceb8-ab39-4928-a3da-3f247cd6713a/58901362742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/083f5e4c-8c96-403f-bc6d-84e74f52cbb1/advanced_engineering_mathematics_with_matlab_third_edition_duffy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e18fc200-bc97-4b71-8ae2-859815c8ba9d/what_is_the_main_point_of_the_cask_of_amontillado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eed3ebd4-b05a-484e-81de-b57cd57a11fb/zopireludenasisedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapufipi.pbworks.com/f/gender_trouble_judith_butler_chapter_1_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4dca65a9-1b71-4441-b99d-831523adcd1a/pusezozukugitogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70fce5b0-1854-437e-bbc1-ebb3738750b1/how_often_should_i_replace_my_keurig_water_filter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bab67bcf-71f0-4740-bb5f-005088f72372/wogasinulegunujoreko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.htmlIn 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000173e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173E4 6440 bytes
SHA-256: bc4fb19abee367d7fc9e5db288a1f8a40aae826c28fbe77695d2aa16f775a484
font_01_sfnt_off000183a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183A7 1872 bytes
SHA-256: 9fba9b0d9e2cc48f58c52755440c9a9bb3bd4c5dbe3d8c853d7e81cca7fbdf20
font_02_sfnt_off00018c9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C9C 5476 bytes
SHA-256: bd21feddddde8e2d5308aeb43df3dccbbdd62691074e921f162167e3e1686812
font_03_sfnt_off00019f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F0B 12248 bytes
SHA-256: b731e03f76d26d4b124482a3883153ffa627d093ad3dc32144f85ada11031bfa