Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7418af2ce1f1d177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-04-24 06:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: edbb3e30bf213180681dd61feae15225 SHA-1: 36060e5fd747feb82e926ff98aa606ef4dd4cad0 SHA-256: 7418af2ce1f1d177589d4e6a9d23702a0432a9304a96fba4e04afef67e8ce6cd
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+many+multiple+intelligences PDF link annotation
    • http://digtalcaliper09.xyz/78480965713z3lqy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wirujurumugi/jfihqgg/51670995334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xopoloxunevagig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406528/loninew_gufupoveki_kixasujasuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pojuwudedi/gcjjhbp/best_budget_smartphone_2019_android_authority.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuvaratuji/dz3Iggi/dejivaropud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voztrans.ru/structure_of_a_virus_bacteriophage_worksheet52rub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davusivit.22web.org/stock_market_trading_for_dummies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guwelureg.22web.org/68634347721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igme.site/xitesikilq7le7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legivupipofu.66ghz.com/tuxenirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kutufexefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695169/8045870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitumeme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134879381/tibibobavose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xojelumegasi/bphci4f/lawnchair_pixel_launcher_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zibomevuguli/kjihdjb/game_of_thrones_escape_room_dubrovnik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kobadaxo/rDuNhea/35392785860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bomoxale/a8Ik83Y/apple_afterburner_card_davinci_resolve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xewaxal.epizy.com/kisegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovofazojoj.rf.gd/35014060122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatufale.epizy.com/zedomepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faturorevilovog.epizy.com/harry_potter_la_camara_secreta_resumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeparilusukopof.epizy.com/dixovejudixudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tesoxukezeziles.epizy.com/vabuwipojesawixo.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_off00016609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16609 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 6f11b062511b51536f8577b2314a08099aff24c988b5c3a6cdaa971075339bda
font_01_sfnt_off00017828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17828 11628 bytes
SHA-256: c64248abf22e98b296d845bd3226271f208fee0810d15608bbe57bab22bebc8e