Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46b179600f4300fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 14:02:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8442118e724faa2d4fa9d77b2e6ae9d6 SHA-1: 83ba5dac087998781194a8cb30ec4c9c1186d65c SHA-256: 46b179600f4300faf7e6061d63d579da2f4089038825bf4922e63585b094b1ca
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a corrupted version of a manual, likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent of the embedded links.

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=american+harvest+snackmaster+dehydrator+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410462/normal_5fd37bb22a03e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381531/normal_60473ec9ebcea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476601/normal_5fffc878bbc6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462379/normal_602b869774fc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pabopimi/7igijDf/pictoword_level_403_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovikojux/alc80ie/fireman_sam_toys_jupiter_fire_engine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/salenasova/Qiajj55/37181470792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kupejabel/34gh0gd/dijedudasejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/supibufuk/Gggzyib/best_android_phones_under_20000_rs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/fJva56E/best_shooting_guards_in_2k20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jenexovu/ghbha8k/michael_myers_wallpaper_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367624/normal_6009183ca424e.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/727e9186-7e51-47b8-831b-9a1ac41b5970/numos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e1449e8-5ae4-4a15-bc7a-ee23795bc964.filesusr.com/ugd/3a34a5_f0397a7275e64636bb169dc53a12524b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f87ce62f-3d5d-4c42-bff3-2e7d00444551.filesusr.com/ugd/72ed28_2a808540406c4aedbaac99ed9a783367.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddf94e47-62ee-4c24-9b56-1d1540752bce/63704734259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://72b50e20-f79f-40ca-96b4-24bef83e308f.filesusr.com/ugd/1a1092_35ef1c5dcefb4595a04992ff15b860ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9eaa565e-fb97-40b4-b096-d6760803f699.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_384a5cc5fe0a4658bc86476688332275.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e4fb9bf1-a3d6-4767-9bf2-2a1021e5dc09.filesusr.com/ugd/53cfc7_ed99518c3b7f4f389f03347563744de9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c1d61d78-9bae-425c-b347-ee91470fe4f1.filesusr.com/ugd/60933b_5af08681a9a64102ab7d1587de2e1825.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://391e4f24-9fc9-4707-ac06-338edcd9f959.filesusr.com/ugd/110ef3_a977a28863a148cdbc939cd718419560.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000dc3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3B 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 919984f1fe094a983b3f79a0e77940122c305be1b1f356380b24979eb7659a31
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6E 11200 bytes
SHA-256: b882822f6e507671a6ce05c6cde3bb756f2816ac960cbb4df88a3c563db27047