Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67736872fb280084…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-03-01 11:28:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 3a3a611e90e6f6a19ad9a322020a8442 SHA-1: c2fd5f1d33c528e4c672cef9a0fcc8d34da4391b SHA-256: 67736872fb2800842820b9cc20deb9adc5a44f57d9ae967e4b92ffed42f5f13d
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, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=jmu+university+outpost+coupon+code PDF link annotation
    • http://i-men.ru/26274243432c7e6u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mixaluwekitu/xFghuhj/how_to_draw_yugioh_monsters_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/goluxewimabu/TMvCDLo/bewafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/joxopejufito/iiidicO/foldersync_pro_4_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tixovokibena.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109053/5106346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palejep.22web.org/regedizobekoxuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzowozuk/gd2idm2/pebogeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petenugilamabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453278/guwivokomonutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagaxavog/ieiivuM/short_coffin_nail_designs_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wapadax.scienceontheweb.net/risedibulibezepetifeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://welitizenowem.mywebcommunity.org/carbs_in_taco_bell_cheesy_gordita_crunch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servempieza.site/97182490219fhy8s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/valujoper/difjihi/77169337219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kosezofejesuxef.atwebpages.com/real_friends_book_read_online_free_full_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gupizamowakop.myartsonline.com/fafazitewuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiwozoma.epizy.com/how_do_i_know_if_my_lawn_mower_spark_plug_is_bad.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12B 5128 bytes
SHA-256: e2df561d0aa78a33b2daff91ba22b22a08af723190c8cf5a615af29eced88ad6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF297 14164 bytes
SHA-256: f215e02b639d6809e1cc02636a62c3cbe88ba422a40283b141fcd1f237af5ebd

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