Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 717f85041c6c8a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-04-30 15:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 73fe6d2c5210311eb548bdb672550988 SHA-1: d4556e442bcfe630d789ec6a3cbee3fef13411b6 SHA-256: 717f85041c6c8a50be0f1b9a0ef68696e6a34f152f7ab2aa295c400d03ebf45f
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 scam attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, designed to create a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to purchasing English books, likely a lure to direct users to malicious or scam websites.

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=comprar+livros+em+ingles+baratos PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483602/normal_601a9c179b5b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domavera.ru/girbau_washing_machine_manuals0i9xi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fidapulano/3jixZje/34259089965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rankingcoach-seo.com/76707529897u5jsj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366359/normal_602af55c159b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447464/normal_606031e827b6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474170/normal_60216acbea5b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368949/normal_5fdc239a17bdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1ux.site/technical_drawing_with_engineering_graphics_download06g93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgtuitp.ru/lomuxalolaxitunubexisanefc7gdc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1b65b899-5fad-42bd-af9e-a3fb1d6a4c80.filesusr.com/ugd/a2ebd8_5451e2b9c6e945fabf1105beed9239f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://144ece88-722e-4d59-a9d1-ae16887514c2.filesusr.com/ugd/48b17f_3c3e1544c9c64ea0b58fd6aa97eaadbc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://84d5b3ab-51dd-4312-87b7-51df18fb3b26.filesusr.com/ugd/9ea9b6_101932b936d542aa82f0a8b93c66f859.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f06ae689-34e6-4fd9-b749-a5985747e370.filesusr.com/ugd/4117a9_de6359c3d39a4a4d9a8c1f1c92043fa9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://df4002df-ed14-466c-b758-10ced248c840.filesusr.com/ugd/3b03e6_f7cafe5862f34db99e5d6445c2fe02f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_a30b87a9be024ca3a7d8a021bbc0d48b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a97be2a3-bfb5-42de-bba9-b145341b31aa.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2860_682b058abecf40f69b932ee4dad0e630.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4c72699b-aa2e-4dc8-8bd5-1a54e8f938a6.filesusr.com/ugd/f3cb45_68d478cc299c452199b8b82638217068.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cccd2283-d272-450a-840b-6541230ebad2.filesusr.com/ugd/5de1df_05e9a9af75bc4b5f86df731fbbf21fd5.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_off0000ef12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF12 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef78787e73fea91bee95c32b1d588b9e383580284210ae645a6639176363bae
font_01_sfnt_off000100cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CB 13444 bytes
SHA-256: bfdef018253ee1ef691380ae240db5e276dc94842ca202897408e95542b2a957