Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bdbbcc3998ed0de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-02-17 14:34:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 027482c70587c2d5143b79ea50887499 SHA-1: dfdf2f5c64b2eced11e4aeabf0e6bad0f9836e5d SHA-256: 5bdbbcc3998ed0de7096d2f9631df26ab13beb320a15d45975d5d00004e36acb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=hamlet+soliloquy+act+1+scene+2+analysis+essay PDF link annotation
    • https://motovonesavot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690882/bebox_bolugereke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sofuxizago/t0ig2jj/xesunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468530/normal_6001d3fd2a615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zahlungsservice-ch.site/govivekusasunebusakiv66z8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/titabofasika/hjAjhji/asteroids_galaxy_tour_fruit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonorur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874279/develuduseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalhallyu.com/96508483696g8ehj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodopemewave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682748/sokukanegilida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413369/normal_6002528bed97b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopasijokalurat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135399025/5244766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sotatixorawi/gf8mNEv/gomezajotadalovefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twitter-center.com/amazon_seller_central_contact_number_usorwgz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pememobuwir/cnifigI/my_dolphin_show_2_online_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefobivuvevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380717/400892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fesakesovoka/jKifXBD/zexatipukowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://najorenowodume.epizy.com/syndrome_choleriforme_definition.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_off0000dc73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC73 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 95567fe0975b3cb261793cfee49cab01a1ec5e95b80bf116d6a546829bfe71e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE36 11540 bytes
SHA-256: f5d590322541502a2b9f4bf119f955a8ce3d9fdd88d96e3a334faa8118f7dce5