Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5342254dc70236c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 22:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: dafcc9bc036223963218cd8043ac5d05 SHA-1: c0f2e3b5af5a9e11604829432b1acca7042b733a SHA-256: 5342254dc70236c5c9fad89480ff5c2b2c22f4a723b8207f1468b9ba45613fb5
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though malformed, contains a URL that aligns with the link farm heuristic, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/pbw?utm_term=does+hardin+die+at+the+end+of+after PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403959/normal_605ee45ab6870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4529281/normal_5feb9ccf2bcf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377909/normal_5fd389a51139f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepaxekedin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134514716/mapudim_nuximadomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajajedoweji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310645/fewurutifuxenapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kewesolatuveg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452958/numag-tuxizavet-galerabewakurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pivufuzonopovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588588/6528979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475992/normal_6056c5800a8cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484633/normal_60633625d59a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weginufakitin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846544/zebanoze_siredoxozij.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/456b8416-b33a-486d-8582-e604cb47d835/17088322003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1db311ea-b2be-4968-83d4-b853a1c5586a/how_much_to_feed_a_netherland_dwarf_rabbit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e57c2f8-04da-4db0-8939-00f011f6ca7a/balegewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbbc0f9f-3c2d-44a4-880a-d576216d643c/biological_psychology_13th_edition_citation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/376aebc3-47cd-453a-99ee-633e3e49e188/how_to_handle_a_behavioral_interview.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9863cf3-4779-45d9-8702-d29dd0729dba/mepojidimisajomurodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/123e2eec-b9ee-441d-8896-4dea7c532c4d/why_is_boron-11_more_abundant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69818b29-e196-440a-bc40-592cc74efe08/tasigunanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/695f9c9d-322d-42ed-a82f-86ca466b3082/1001_nights_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/209ee23a-de56-48ca-8a92-bab573d4ef01/fantastic_beasts_and_where_to_find_them_2_streaming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30f31895-8b0b-464d-9604-376cc2dfc085/how_to_tell_if_my_hot_water_heater_element_is_bad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29a38c1f-1517-4df8-a12d-c8567d19a0b3/45453730687.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_off00019764.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19764 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 4819f4cb4663a009d96cf5b90ac318cfc31f532604e8dbb4adb2b869feae2efa
font_01_sfnt_off0001a843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A843 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 25dc184a5cd00e5ccd29af7876914ded9a0b3c56b9b2677ecb56e917db9ff245