Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 820162dbb445f40c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-03-14 11:29:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 5b5c2d2dbb8816f877491ded3aa5acc4 SHA-1: 4a718a1eec09ab67e89849b44f207428de67549e SHA-256: 820162dbb445f40c3939588a9f9ae5e49a2fc5a7310c977464a7507ce402c706
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the malformed stream and embedded URI heuristics point to exploitation or malicious content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=gas+stoichiometry+problems+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/konafomaz/hzZzmgc/kogamuzewibelibumipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mifimafonuku/dpid2ja/wifi_private_network_windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04acd939-ce41-4598-924e-feae24b31dbd/radumalafivazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35ea8d83-87c3-4492-a35d-336ff27a5032/dijesotivofenonomizibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lonozote/avatar_250_premium_cho_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e0cff7e-1d27-4d77-9ae1-92f6085ce4a7/is_the_brandy_cinderella_on_disney_plus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/61ab5ead-6b19-459d-806b-a7fa8c17af44/34117576034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51e53f38-8501-4645-85d9-07b3da545621/17605153257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vufuzewasi/sample_reflection_paper_in_apa_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f8b2de7a-6012-4721-b8f1-df5267d6bb95.filesusr.com/ugd/8ebb60_77aa2d6c378c4a88ad0880b1267a60b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/74019fdf-cac0-4b1f-abaa-84726892552c/punidofekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bebc68ca-f1cb-45e4-aa42-f8f010ec474e/48381082444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2d2b1dae-c014-4902-97e6-c3f1d56915cd.filesusr.com/ugd/70e5f7_1210085df26f47088b17342a5c75a089.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76bfcaba-3eac-4fcf-9e8d-2e0305cf18c6/irobot_roomba_670_robotic_vacuum_cleaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://521a9f5b-5c7e-4f25-a9e4-5446fb1b1975.filesusr.com/ugd/c1a494_b7126c917df74432897b22b65072424e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11ea90da-655f-4496-ba1e-fb4439fe048f/67291879725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://de315c38-daa2-4293-b666-e554ba9b7d65.filesusr.com/ugd/564d2e_1530ccb84b7d4d2f88fe7ac0cce9af5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://24a70dd4-b549-4b9e-9c0a-6eea45ab85ad.filesusr.com/ugd/ab0c63_998890ebbb2048abb180dcdde198e03b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b0958c6-7c2c-4c25-b43b-72b8fc9bc324/tarewomewejalisagivavati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sejakopa/game_aquapark_io_mod_apk.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_off0000f1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CD 5536 bytes
SHA-256: a203b3399743d10b5d2ba33361ed8597dd0cfb95e67dc6f093e6c8f6affccf21
font_01_sfnt_off0001048b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048B 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 4d95da2848f6a12e7ffdb9d3f42993ada8e139abd95fd8b335d4f635dbb2e6ca