Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827826234a2dcc68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-02-09 19:57:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: d909ab73879eab56af783c03ca830d05 SHA-1: 179193acc9a5103d4fdfde3f922e7b281fd22755 SHA-256: 827826234a2dcc68b498dfd77c3e7babdbccad1e1d2c3545810ebea250afdab3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malicious content.

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://druttle.ru/wb?keyword=autumn%20leaves%20sheet%20music%20for%20guitar PDF link annotation
    • https://lufegema.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134132410/8220039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vawilateg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697686/sepimolaxevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gajifawegux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134649352/8604636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://befuvabesuwab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740391/204203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manaluw.iblogger.org/jimagisujakelategu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutitisuputusi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437948/lomirugezejixagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387235/normal_601ab9b970065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402707/normal_5fec8ff5afc6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366339/normal_5fd885fc99adb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duxataravur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017775/kovuwifa.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/dazinibonofobi/rokifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefalojinon.rf.gd/cell_cycle_regulation_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lewimidofi.epizy.com/79973689796.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF89 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 020dfe6374019ecdc50d47deba0b8fcd23068c9e4bc8621a5829c890e2f7040b
font_01_sfnt_off00010195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10195 3720 bytes
SHA-256: b91f3c26f37c28538ed09035cbea6f9221827f1e30b50c452f08cc820bcc167b
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF8 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8e6d93c5c067716ee46d48bfb6bacf3f49b876a31e36fd563aabdcb9e3c7ab