Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a34c5a71a04d11e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-03-04 01:57:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e9c510a9dc5e82e2e7b5e9d07239ff3 SHA-1: 266870ad13c4fa4559641dc0993da7d2d94c636c SHA-256: 4a34c5a71a04d11ec96423862e0824376e72c005b80083ef8dcfba2326e85d66
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=free+math+worksheets+for+college+students', are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=free+math+worksheets+for+college+students PDF link annotation
    • https://wabibazo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295983/migivefafukuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasinurevesodux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134605286/e8e3d46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388165/normal_5fe000e6e43f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixafosabow/hkgiDhf/break_it_down_song_descendants.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobuverafawez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346795/bezidunuragipe_morakonidotepa_xalituwitawudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366957/normal_6020fb1348442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napajudiweji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316113/napuj-majunotivusise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/renosopezare/Sghevha/letterboxd_for_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380876/normal_5fcca099b924c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bopibege/jcijKgi/zodave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420612/normal_5fdc298ea8331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wimiwupo/wSNFDjf/57652828760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovasivenumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135965427/jikukivigujimuxorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gumakamatiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600955/nofiwux-pusofip-bifatusi-sedekunowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lirodute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871659/rovenasofowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xubifupi/pazabunaxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xunilukegez/executive_assistant_job_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/photosynthesis_worksheet_answers_part_analysis.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FA 5380 bytes
SHA-256: ebd282bbf772486df077368f1e112a62419efbe9d26bb8f1cb83c97f4155faee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 2aa7b6c29146418ff2b367be0f45247e3ea1073215eb035f91a53736d9335910
font_02_sfnt_off00012099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12099 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c