Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 528431b5c0b3091e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-03-23 13:26:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: a03f21c4516208c06ee722d0a64e597b SHA-1: 031d31d6164b99607d74d186a3cfd203a10f524b SHA-256: 528431b5c0b3091efac4574e9344a0a2171ff414abfa53236d4e09d68ecef73b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/award?keyword=angular+2+interview+questions+and+answers+for+experienced+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://study-english-05.site/jivexofugeribimitenunigumkfob3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/govazofaj/ivgGheC/card_maker_creator_for_crc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mihetos.xyz/metodologia_estudio_de_casogy2gx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miwataxanis/iegjrie/vekodiwisevenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studyweb.site/how_to_draw_qam_constellation_diagramig5n3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subfamjtii.site/22960793369lwiew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kafevinuva/9jaBzjf/anime_wallpaper_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-arenda.site/siwamelozabsnu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmaider.com/motu_ultralite_mk3_firewire_manual04mwx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasotaluvose/0hbxh4J/the_walking_dead_michonne_game_voice_actors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ff19a39e-637c-4fc6-80cc-750024e8dd37.filesusr.com/ugd/d217e2_5712892fd589431eb9b887a35b2026ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://694dae7a-2033-4a59-8b06-91ff4eec0774.filesusr.com/ugd/e1d58f_496ba6565194492eafa92cc82cfa0430.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f0ddeb88-3549-4a27-8821-6e3dd713f165.filesusr.com/ugd/2b74da_f274722265e04a37a57c6a520e3f7e3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac263381-fdad-4fda-ae78-6df6d71032d6.filesusr.com/ugd/25c42e_08840ed4c7a54e12a3d221ae8d29dd65.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://57933e30-1e86-4cbe-ad2b-777cb72f9932.filesusr.com/ugd/235f1a_55e70e0fef5b4aaeb4e310932dd5e3d9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c4cd0dbc-23d7-4f11-b65f-2561cec8abe5.filesusr.com/ugd/516793_dacd489b37fe471289c09fb5f7b9191b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://98e80eac-0673-4bf9-a3de-4132461903b3.filesusr.com/ugd/1acd69_2141fa200a16410caddbc0c0809e2deb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5849b288-062f-49f8-a71b-da420f1f00fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c068f8_c837b6aa092744a0853d7cbe4fa28ecf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3edbbcf3-b5b1-446e-9630-835d38fa79e0.filesusr.com/ugd/6908d7_eeed723e0fab40a2a8dafb87f8c7a4dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://79d86aa2-23c4-4aa0-a0dc-c16ac59ae55d.filesusr.com/ugd/ecb701_8997e675aa23490dae76e7f19f9c91c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://599b09cd-7b6a-4758-94a3-08a08d316165.filesusr.com/ugd/628a76_d6f2c5f93cb04e8980104032967c56d1.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010be2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE2 5792 bytes
SHA-256: f3cdbe1a01d06cdeaf4655d3167fa161b5c9761b3f069d74a792129f018f16b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC7 11280 bytes
SHA-256: f340c6da6ab6f42763f5a7316af81db95e0ca6e77394c2fc321697ce6d613880
font_02_sfnt_off00014661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14661 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd