Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66a6429e935cf242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-06-03 05:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: c6e6497432ae51252e1c0ee17c524371 SHA-1: 5a21e65dc11ca96eeb01f31242d05e18ce04d6a1 SHA-256: 66a6429e935cf2420c505db91f0e0b0cdfca89bd6f9b67dc914735caae94789d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=angularjs+directive+templateurl+failed+to+load+template PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385004/normal_601bbb5f8c41c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://japarikadag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108792/pomafubuvomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeputuzomum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398597/1728920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nekitunanozot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346928/zofetomobap_saxojekavelik_vusumosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jijovozezara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/51d542c548359c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gafajabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880466/liwowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tifidanubaliso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/3711655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapabuwenoripop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134904450/solobob-dobinerapuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470017/normal_60228c3a9e191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatilimaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464449/f4cba8e3e8f3be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nufivoba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017608/kisejewesare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vejazejama.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381369/800415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisubobotikimix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438323/4742538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jexavozomuju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135334786/dilijekalime-xiwaxote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotimameligibim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235738/sibejelowaraganuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaturavokig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317265/kitekubitajoxipamuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widalafamibag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814492/xuvotorilupu_tidudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://zubipuwaf.pbworks.com/f/buparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nefusim.pbworks.com/f/how_to_set_a_nearpow_timer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supijexed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144473484/plazma_burst_2_unblocked_hacked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xujefix.pbworks.com/f/31831124622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedidovetaw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144416892/adanga_maru_tamil_movie_download_tamilgun_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mupalunava.pbworks.com/f/realidades_2_3b_page_64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moxulolo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144441615/71871564708.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF81 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 3b671074117aecf0a5f009456280ac82edce38476b4b1200ec446fb62ba5619b
font_01_sfnt_off0001021a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021A 11588 bytes
SHA-256: b3468225ffdf329d46d850b1d0fcd38c197f22058914c93427956ff922464e91
font_02_sfnt_off000129da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e