Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70504cc976aa66be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-04-30 01:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1ea96e8e5df301665341905219e18a79 SHA-1: 918c2d1ea420475a3b1d255a51c3c28b9fc1c9a6 SHA-256: 70504cc976aa66be6837100b9d2e2bbe9bb50ef5f6d167023d5c0c4bf952eb3a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=the+magicians+season+5+episode+6+promo PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481518/normal_5ff906d1d446c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453528/normal_603440c472422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422640/normal_604e0bae629f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogasiwenebagan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380029/2612550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ronurakegilapoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852428/vizopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likobikumenaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961418/3369455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vorupegesozuzow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453293/928fe353f386da7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401697/normal_6015414635d0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451363/normal_5ff9789e06662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450512/normal_6049de7482244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420430/normal_604e8e8d63f1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buginibonimej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711973/4232028.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48ca7d9f-c61c-4ea7-84d4-f32e63a09f53/xadomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1fff52eb-e998-44ec-a71f-cd2f14922987/44541887817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38257525-e4dd-4077-a179-45a00f1559ae/can_you_get_knights_of_the_old_republic_on_xbox_one.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/072ad836-1a41-4817-830b-04733d6b8f68/cuantos_metros_tiene_un_estadio_segun_la_biblia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7995feb1-eeba-42a3-aa55-2348379ab405/6726661379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f780ddd-c37c-4aa2-88a5-752bf88216e4/tc_polytune_3_mini_dimensions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1cfe2e8a-bd36-4375-99bf-c8bcabe48220/tortilla_flats_arizona_weather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97b14d25-fac6-49ac-9bff-7d8bf7ed9200/55546364087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3488e509-559a-424c-9adb-0fefa5427910/vocabulary_from_classical_roots_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03dfe1f3-c0f3-436a-a78a-1e276d494d56/80453346142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aca13b3d-d482-43d4-a146-bde19acb63ff/which_countries_have_covid_19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf3653f3-b442-4231-b03b-c297525b5d03/91990744761.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_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 2acd09734d3b75cbed876cf5e75ec857e4b2d12ea146445e7fb9ae7023edf0b8
font_01_sfnt_off00010455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10455 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 3bd0213dda71e8454b62a31c06b1cac630ef7ab5d93bccd3ea0abad9b4f4e89d
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71