Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78326aba573a93da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-03-21 12:17:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d3022d76d4ae6837bb1de6610e7514ab SHA-1: 490556b7cb81b754c7500ea039e609efad8476b5 SHA-256: 78326aba573a93da7b0cc790f8bd9fcdd8ca9def73a25472463f5c789a7bbcf0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the attempt to drive traffic to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maypoin.ru/wix?keyword=ciaphas+cain+the+emperor%2527s+finest+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420036/normal_601d142f99448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446285/normal_6036ac91a1728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikigevoxepasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134716722/04ffce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501037/normal_60327ff46f052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ponesigis/jjQhbZS/defense_of_roman_britain_td_tower_defense_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujabimebedegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234846/muxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449783/normal_5fd677aeb131f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vogoxaginoje/IeieG7T/infected_2012_comic_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457330/normal_5fda026e39fe4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8d928d4c-4e32-4dc6-8093-d383c90b3cca.filesusr.com/ugd/b5d49c_c92b9350076b45b2b2ad31507f461f18.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6988dc0-0e23-4760-87cf-037ff9b911b4/lezojepotonububoneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b01ec662-dec5-4f54-b977-8708717d6054.filesusr.com/ugd/07e02c_b97de0cffb91429a9ded3ece83901c2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://51fd5013-30c4-43d1-89ce-86564632a3b5.filesusr.com/ugd/9f06f8_e36e7db249014a6d99928ad5487a0e74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39472683-7d43-4bc3-882b-0947a83fd973.filesusr.com/ugd/544c7e_832a1031866b44d8a755ce3b2e8ddaba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3745348a-78a0-42d7-8ff4-af2b45bf5faf.filesusr.com/ugd/02631b_5738c8913e0448e29f119bce8ea85cc5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06e9c1b4-f7dc-405e-a83e-247139efc22e/64299428773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f635e5d9-31b1-4f19-b758-7a623be10181.filesusr.com/ugd/6cf0f5_91a9cce6180c4e0f8f22ca9392a1a7dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ddf64d59-5240-4154-9987-17dfc28e22c7.filesusr.com/ugd/cec570_2eeca61d8cbb45c59d7ac93260f0a1c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://57eba762-b826-4879-8d7a-7f480aba2934.filesusr.com/ugd/e89c2b_58c49db8fb4b4472a706378cdf11fc84.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_off0000eb00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB00 5300 bytes
SHA-256: ceaca61db6186216d470de821c79c312ac138091e02374484f152ef4878aabd8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDF 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef3ee89db66be422f14f59bee35eb2e00b23cc333cd17fc551fe2ebfecaa260