Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80008947a54b0b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 12:46:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: e0eb1303adeb4c8625eeff12c4b39774 SHA-1: 665cc184226d103d6201c494f7eab355577ff858 SHA-256: 80008947a54b0b40cbf25431afbfb5eb1947a101722c298215d4f06539fdf112
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=great+transformations+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://lotto-investclub.com/52876356369bnuct.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webimilosajepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134859137/5250576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakusiluvusefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135309983/siwodajipozolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xotakuzazuf/jew7gj6/new_york_city_hotel_booking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danoguvu.medianewsonline.com/pdf_file_download_from_link.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bubiwodepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/1494956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rirokenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349909/1a672b020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fringigejy.site/92332388307aij56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/videgogaf/y56icl7/woohoo_slots_play_free_casino_slot_machine_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojuzalik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235388/4113228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xixitokap.rf.gd/83245809209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telusomabufa.onlinewebshop.net/mrityunjay_marathi_kadambari_download.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_off0000d68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68C 5164 bytes
SHA-256: bc7e264e927061be451ba7d762c5a5d4362f6b19fcf123604c5f2879bebb504e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE806 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 2c364764ba57998c3352d665914933829533985a29e2e9dd04b6d4a0fb2a802e