Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66e88e37e5abf3e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-21 05:00:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3e8a64090901d053ab7f5260898dacb4 SHA-1: 1fc82dbd76b21254f2a401d980b339d5769dd2e1 SHA-256: 66e88e37e5abf3e97da554dcb418c3b80c6eca5d71de7dcc7a71dd2ae015da5a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or SEO spam campaign. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious intent.

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=applied+economics+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jiteruruw.sportsontheweb.net/tenamunuxejenagomuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuduzilir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857383/1d53d68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavewiren/gd4yihc/turawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nisugavu/ihgfHJs/murafenufogozesulurilebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzowozuk/jeicT0V/drill_master_angle_grinder_replacement_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasipodo.mypressonline.com/speed_queen_dryer_error_code_5h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobiguwifuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966914/wizaxorozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geloritiveda.mygamesonline.org/technical_writing_examples.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://madigekole.onlinewebshop.net/ludebujitexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://75e6061f-eb7a-4ce8-b546-077bf96366c3.filesusr.com/ugd/2dfd19_89c5e98f67634b449e7fb332908289de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f829aefb-76a2-4530-b17d-dde5cf979c64/kazenujetajenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a224ba15-fe08-4004-b1b0-325410ae0609/zixapixiwiliburetusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6baea7ca-81e4-4a11-8410-716433a99462.filesusr.com/ugd/764aaa_3c8eea5b340647f2a9362efae714a546.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee897e78-a157-4eb5-8a47-d615096087a2.filesusr.com/ugd/113e89_30e2b938426c4300877f5c07cafc4f1b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0aa989e7-076c-475f-bc22-fff5ae310860.filesusr.com/ugd/b44be6_07b77931e7bb412086a0bcd037972e94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c01188fd-d8af-4b86-846b-090f7ecd58d8.filesusr.com/ugd/9058e5_a1bac016c53c4f4db44fe325f5956f18.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2dc4fc64-a8a9-4598-a55c-6106c95102be/73619495502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kivozusemu.atwebpages.com/dobexetedugawisuwa.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_off0000e963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE963 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 575056d14e0fbee26cfbf3b0520d658893e21e2624795d36e98cf52910208cfd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA71 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 3637af526bca87a133a262ddd5130c9723d835ad6e54ce28b68664ebf8d36705
font_02_sfnt_off00011ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DED 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2