Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c1838653fd3de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-05-19 12:43:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 375354a2df3dc7771f49292cb786145a SHA-1: 081facb67891c3691f3a76c5b9539177595530c0 SHA-256: 60c1838653fd3de0f26430424466f1b544025c0aea3cb9473a7ec256cba894c5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing or trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded content, though partially garbled, appears to be related to quotes and application metadata, which likely serves as a lure to disguise the malicious intent of redirecting users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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=who+am+i+sad+quotes PDF link annotation
    • https://zovakilezogavi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163957/gujibafexatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wivetagimogik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134618772/8047663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lulefimoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740328/lojoka-rewakiduj-jodiwabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490371/normal_604deb251e189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabofeluraratub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438776/cf4967f20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485309/normal_6050dbbe34f80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuxulavadimuxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234789/3569765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454280/normal_604edc38b9cfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368503/normal_605819e764dc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paduxadoduxim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775016/xozirutexoxazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tugunopoxakisif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398472/c0221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metuwudoguwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323448/paguguriziwiwer_porebi_mozowebuxopi_fuxofivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402956/normal_5fc8113d47c45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walanugenaxoduf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135964425/70416e49957d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavuzolitad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134327879/befitopuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nixalimug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680811/kupinitasodavarata.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/dee9ce28-7de0-4a8d-8fe2-a7dcbb0cb9c1/lincoln_sa_200_parts_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1679ac0-ec2b-4efc-9f21-ea64029f97ef/jeverunolopiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af3e14a6-9aa5-4e48-9a09-c5c0cb52349f/fisher_price_snugabunny_swing_motor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c820cbd-aa69-4887-8d95-80d47fb17152/dewalt_dw705_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/937f5a66-b181-496a-94b1-e3a1a3cf3dc3/printable_parts_of_speech_worksheets_5th_grade.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_off0000eff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba1b2ce261ba698afaf22c910febecdb7490ef49ce383d4671c0590a85d84f4
font_01_sfnt_off0001011d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: b79c0fddc6805d9d71b99f0976f31bc8ebb3632ec37a518c411450c0ffc71599