Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81d7b97c70e071e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-03-17 01:42:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 54ce76549174bb664f00d752e2174d23 SHA-1: 246ec85d2dbb09e7fcc8d4ba4183bec873de00ba SHA-256: 81d7b97c70e071e6437401e3c1dcb1dd11516d153b2b84467768b2ad658009f6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, strongly suggests a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards techniques used for redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

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://vilenefex.ru/wix?keyword=wave+speed+calculations+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://kabezanaxojuzer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234652/24faef4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xabiferego.iblogger.org/jaxufabumisokitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devudupaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880603/50e5a280584a59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linerebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813546/8078352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazuwexakabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302764/5ee57a83af8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukivobiwizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097020/ffb92f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savupubib.22web.org/kay_jewelers_ring_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kijomexed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069838/64261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatorama.site/cadbury_nigeria_annual_report_2010_pcxd29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadebisoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302749/f7a2438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daviwajid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134609730/e540c76c0fb36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safalijig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/koverakurenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hackins.site/g_switch_3_unblocked_games_33331c0o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedufozares.22web.org/suwixasamalale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadesurirow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711952/3190871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sazomo/heart_beat_song_mr_jatt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e88dbb2-548e-4c70-89ee-af389228c225/greek_god_bookends.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dusined/labemosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futivel.epizy.com/petty_cash_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogapebod.rf.gd/lowepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zifozujiwi/82087660796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/034125f1-5044-4630-9395-ff3ff4a75e9b/buvifomakozurevufefoxumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8284934a-bad4-4ca5-b1f2-8012eef0a8ee/python_programming_language_book_for_beginners.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_off0000d169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD169 5388 bytes
SHA-256: a594ed5045c914811778a16312007a934ecf9e74d7d8f7c3e4faaf12d83514ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D3 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 0a57e051a47e6582208a984ae09c22fa6424014d09e4ef83fb3704958c99dc69