Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72e669adfe02eac4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-03-10 03:57:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0d411a58dcf303faf3ecc134ce7fc7ff SHA-1: 0d1611127ea7774243195df508c53b28d484c04c SHA-256: 72e669adfe02eac420e3e1bd31a338e8bffc7479323d5a2d4c3ed48f2fd353bf
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or ad fraud. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or ad-heavy websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=clasificacion+citologia+cervical+bethesda+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wugunifikezu/kjbibWE/xogijegiwawinobekadiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zerurukoraju/elgfjeG/badabizume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zisetilu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382786/6d38135f7049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wadelovelo/jjajgBh/pixel_3a_xl_band_71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/musutalivun/cxPPP2Y/bubble_shooter_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutumufedige.getenjoyment.net/dogoxowojitifemabugixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mitajaso/e0O2kie/starfall._com_calendar_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gonolesuzam/jhcWuVc/launcher_minecraft_mod_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxijaxazixi/eheja5u/teacher_appreciation_week_2019_chipotle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nafogoke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134776139/mizogabiviwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jisesixerigu/oifkoif/vajuvabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/binisomomup/ja5ereD/mazel_tov_gif_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajifepeselok.sportsontheweb.net/energy_audit_report_of_hotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramuwesitavoz.mywebcommunity.org/59473872885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nizufalagef/jaiiJoJ/swingman_shorts_washington_wizards_2002-_03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pogetowem.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_reset_motorola_xt1921-2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/feseni/non_reporting_member_of_participating_ffi_group.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2149e4e6-3ada-4178-a1ff-f83ad053ecf2/47248357148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/140538d5-3d20-4b85-9599-54489e5b1903/50971185073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nevovumowa/fewoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec2a3c58-3bda-4583-904f-253629b7f58e/sezojesamiritajunigomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazamerijekufol/27521301273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuxalowafokuvo/examples_of_critical_thinking_questions_for_college_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fibesezati/niduzuzovunojesuperatex.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF30 5520 bytes
SHA-256: cbe84f7eab28677d77628c3e1f4dec72d4f805e555bfb562e542599a7875e017
font_01_sfnt_off000111eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EB 15764 bytes
SHA-256: d299eaf293c2660626d05d752005d3c997aee0e041978f973ce78732bef8268a