Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473fe9a3d24c7725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 12:09:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2c6fbf5f1f316afbb26ce060582d5016 SHA-1: 0597dd1d1d9b2706516a61ba27bd1301f083a237 SHA-256: 473fe9a3d24c7725545115fed72f698f231125fa3e8bc68be058ba9fb994060e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One URL, 'https://chcial.ru/pbw?utm_term=campbell+biology+in+focus+second+edition+pdf', appears to be a redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive link farm indicate a likely attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/pbw?utm_term=campbell+biology+in+focus+second+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tulopudegiwidal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739196/pomaruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukagopesuzidad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381553/90a945f24968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balalowomave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738893/a55be4bd67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jijutuvexezepor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444828/sedavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suluxeposinugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634013/caa0c1916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wogaxorabamogak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400234/4577263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zasawebisev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865024/da3a735d222c34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidenuriju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/1d3556a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semomekavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373715/mitufe_juromu.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/5ed54dab-6948-4bfb-9fa7-589a95f5cf76/56852304174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e243b437-0b2d-4f62-8c0e-9ffb7846da2c/58208049414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d68ddccf-c016-4e0f-ae8d-cf89cb9cdf3e/where_can_i_get_my_ged_for_free_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e35250d-f7b5-4bf4-b71f-9e6e27e8f414/what_is_gold_color_personality.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06ee8d7a-f8bc-46a5-9b91-c65331faa0d3/betty_azar_basic_english_grammar_workbook_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinurakus.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144723942/operating_system_deitel_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivikixizub.pbworks.com/f/54824922330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1765cc60-b003-4ffb-8b43-7b0d00379ab8/el_coran_en_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b25eabe-5970-4cd7-805b-998ed84596ce/how_to_use_an_old_sears_kenmore_sewing_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b21ca9e5-7084-4dce-85c7-bb49ce76175c/73556318771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aba6e5e5-76c0-4677-9b9b-e911a52b2c07/17732323877.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_off0001595b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1595B 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 4a8270e3f250e28ec547852c767b59a803680bdd00d51f50400d70363fe053c0
font_01_sfnt_off00016c18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C18 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 31f926c51907a3aad1b6845cc2ae4433d13337bd8c7715c4ffd8408720e2250f