Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 466d5548c8eec3d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-04-03 08:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6043094b3b395dbff3d1912b81410e55 SHA-1: e46fba073c3c8c5d87aac5d50594d72b95450d05 SHA-256: 466d5548c8eec3d030189f11b15578fd01171a2fc749c16327ca21afbb93e86e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a large number of external links, including a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or redirection attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious websites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=actuarial+science+course+outline+pdf
    • https://pegufozexak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317465/d47369.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bumajanivosi/iiigigf/octagon_space_4d_cards.pdf
    • https://zojozonamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438692/gobawinoxazix-zugix.pdf
    • https://nujalujuxak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347358/2d71d420dcda.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426944/normal_6022d1c3bd511.pdf
    • https://lekomuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134773229/0aaa198.pdf
    • https://wonumizesux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631676/ranopinimobu-rugot.pdf
    • https://vumuzuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134506571/soxizarazimowiw-magitipadokupa-najewesa-nonijuk.pdf
    • https://tarezusubem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135386237/293861.pdf
    • http://tapozifokun.mywebcommunity.org/45344198703.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376849/normal_605e0e6dd5ee0.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rapovixovuti/V21Hjab/good_fortnite_bedwars_maps.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366365/normal_6015845d31eca.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wufevinek/hdyTzhf/pocket_mine_2_apk_mod.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445735/normal_5ff688682d222.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pagozixupezi/8RJjh27/61081016002.pdf
    • https://lidutefavova.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012516/634723.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://gupatevefojip.myartsonline.com/zavexeranujofij.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b160d91b-0906-4bcf-995e-b207d0f6e733/forgotten_realms_history_5th_edition.pdf
    • http://zakefuki.myartsonline.com/a_view_from_the_bridge_full.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/889ebef1-22f6-4613-8c41-0f5d2801761b/the_reluctant_fundamentalist_full_movie_online_free.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/440b1520-6088-48e2-a392-d658e5418458/nuxebiwis.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b2aea6f-18f6-4fea-84b0-0c8d4a451653/pitch_anything_chapter_summary.pdf
    • http://kisalonokexiwi.atwebpages.com/60223456769.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f303.bin
980e6910f336a8f198458d60d8543f1e5d76a2efbcce3def1232c432fe22911c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF303 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010490.bin
13eef4d9717f55e473778b490cd8b6cb2f7520649e5f3b59289ae61349517cc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10490 10128 bytes