Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62b7d28411fe1349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-04-17 01:58:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 16aff6e217f59c9e76a1d7d3feb616ab SHA-1: 281f0f6f1b15aac43a8ba8bfe10e3b7eda4b36e5 SHA-256: 62b7d28411fe134926de3f16d2cc394f1341e2444dfe11d05f72295e0c94d706
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 pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+write+a+descriptive+essay+about+a+person PDF link annotation
    • http://tamowigaxijatot.66ghz.com/naca_airfoils.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galoomer.online/youtube_joseph_prince_live_the_let_go_lifevbgqi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501045/normal_60177a44bc3e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498702/normal_606023ea25cc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailandlove.site/2268363037493gr5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459776/normal_602299385aeaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criticcxck.space/voxanazijihv7np.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fb-pageunderreview.com/newcomb_studio_loomkkf93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8e0cabef-d481-4215-b437-8a5fc4e4723c.filesusr.com/ugd/f41140_ea199025c7074b1f8a0c321a77511d20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2cc12256-1025-444a-bacb-901a9f007bda.filesusr.com/ugd/d1fcfc_9b3760d0661b4672989360ffa1395f41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jusekajuno.epizy.com/competency_based_questions_and_answers_leadership.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://107a3552-ed21-4f5d-95e3-510b6eae4444.filesusr.com/ugd/21bbef_eab1c658c12149c18b561febb825b643.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb1cd387-549b-40f1-a5a4-67fd65d29bb3.filesusr.com/ugd/4200b4_ea248bee8865459b99d2c1deabe5bbc6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e25b5f36-ee09-4010-8803-019b2853a23b.filesusr.com/ugd/c34eac_f41b85d014b4474e8207cba60243706a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gugujis.epizy.com/al_arabiyah_baina_yadaik_jilid_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c18d9829-3add-4afa-bc87-35007fe3998a.filesusr.com/ugd/70c1ec_bfc182c5655246aa9ffbbf1dff963f2e.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF363 5392 bytes
SHA-256: b589e4701eeb80e0b3dd82e0efee0ed21628c387aa5292d6f301a70ed1f25dcb
font_01_sfnt_off000105da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DA 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 4420261841b8f043348644fe0042dae94334b9fb412d60016fc635121dca7841