Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5523801e5d4acd52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-04-26 02:09:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 23c766dd45edcccd2f1d571d8f5a19a8 SHA-1: 2109e90d46787ae9f53053a126d426fcf2ff0c32 SHA-256: 5523801e5d4acd52117cdde668b7e9e2519e1a5d34ed098560e70922beef73b8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document's apparent theme of 'workout plans' is a common lure for such malicious activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=starting+to+lose+weight+workout+plans PDF link annotation
    • https://vomakitiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384058/2373155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajorisovobune.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134752278/lakijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/budajawisore/hehaIOA/my_talking_tom_2_toys_for_pets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475000/normal_5ff230023c9dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guferewefozitak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134393558/webof_nabixotolurexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372373/normal_6058eb7ca0998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415756/normal_6020a8da0b824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunimesepet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455680/4330145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujakisuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695398/1236533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490244/normal_60432eb0568c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/megopofe/RT4iivL/facebook_login_android_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485568/normal_6016c0fb28421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://rebikesumusosu.rf.gd/nasar_wilderness_first_aid_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9b08d158-0e0f-4203-9b31-e1272d977b1c.filesusr.com/ugd/086daf_33e5ac2ff43443bea9b5aa4525c409c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eb9d0a7c-f241-4274-9260-18def620c3fd.filesusr.com/ugd/796b85_ab2dcec81212463eab4afee14533a686.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sesunofopum.epizy.com/asphalt_8_airborne_soundtrack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b36ad067-21ef-4b17-9055-1dfcbb3fb98c.filesusr.com/ugd/8673ad_435ad3e3178344bca0c16cfd304aedd9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/libosokune/tesusizizaduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijularof.epizy.com/wajesiriwifatibadimasufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wepalozu.epizy.com/nikon_dx_18_55_lens_not_autofocusing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rikolesafuwofar/alveolus_adjective_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatidewivi.epizy.com/flower_pot_images_free.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_off00010353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10353 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 2ea925bbaee20ad706cbdb697e9f6e2d766d52a2e4784f809716977c0d44145d
font_01_sfnt_off00011585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11585 10644 bytes
SHA-256: dfe26739560df6a7388224d5fd6f6151e443a3a45aac4275a364d188ca64fe81