Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45828ffbb89af1ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-05-04 02:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 58ad6786e9af50ba4fb4bac418d5bff6 SHA-1: efde98eed4a975887bcad5397917d7898803a932 SHA-256: 45828ffbb89af1ca5d24adc2efd2425890a0a43ed5d8ed5140577af488e90a03
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing a large number of external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=physical+science+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxexafetivu/gJXgchd/drum_set_cymbals_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fujigugi/MhipTLW/21232282206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wekajibex/dgiTFjb/billie_eilish_stickers_for_whatsapp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mutuwatu/Mgdgdih/33895262310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijeripe.iblogger.org/rounding_decimals_worksheet_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/togixulala/F8gckjb/pizijuduwelupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laregazobo.22web.org/nikon_af-s_dx_vr_zoom-nikkor_55-200mm_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zezegawutogu/hghib5N/52340044513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gakuxidufujun.rf.gd/what_is_the_purpose_of_religion_quora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ed30ddb-3df1-4505-9e4e-3e87fc6d20ea.filesusr.com/ugd/f043c1_174c3b5fe9a148c59cb759493e7877d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pibonev.rf.gd/77664124160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1482387f-61d8-47e1-b538-9b7f1e8b89fb.filesusr.com/ugd/538d67_b279c3dbed334b1facbf1a37c583e122.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3b9c8e93-52ab-41e8-96f8-e5fc639bf6fa.filesusr.com/ugd/fe3ccd_e6b240804e1b48b7a8b14b3de9436df0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a2d940c-82bf-4203-9774-870060f4ac41/whats_a_good_title_for_a_book_about_cats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4eff3ec4-d147-45d1-be73-876d9e1d0019.filesusr.com/ugd/efb3f0_9268ff6f5de34a63b5c33bc1c2054b53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://665985ba-8e9f-4173-b993-17a3090d61d7.filesusr.com/ugd/08421c_b8a07fcc213f4df6868dbecd5ba8db66.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e43b2660-86a3-4f91-9328-160d6c75f096/what_does_world_literature_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://03f57db0-fbcf-46ec-8713-21b5992b8512.filesusr.com/ugd/455f95_48b334720043426a9afad3c8deb488bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5d7b6b1-2336-4f3b-8d3c-b0c3699406c4/rusawajitunodiwifiriziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://35b1a599-9f45-4897-82ce-59a931fc5495.filesusr.com/ugd/daca0d_0593b82120ea4e4ca81b75d93613fdd1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef71c7ab-d597-4843-bb76-d6edbe303edd/43700639963.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_off0000f93d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93D 5524 bytes
SHA-256: fe44b302b932cf1e86490d8d0fcd9943594984b3307bc57244beff071291d817
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0F 10736 bytes
SHA-256: ef9bf49191350f1952b34891ddb9d9571efbbf7ff23d549c7f36f9d16587b70f