Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82822f8574c6b894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-18 20:46:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 01640c142e746541ac35bcb386d7cafc SHA-1: 9b3e03ee38a3e5c3eb1eb102ffca54dd1fac7765 SHA-256: 82822f8574c6b8946483f12bdba8dbf79d7b46a87ca75939d170b6a63b7af577
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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/123?utm_term=cello+sheet+music+hallelujah+free PDF link annotation
    • https://nugobobunebiset.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135303429/pomoxavetidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366369/normal_6052eae8c7d8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411479/normal_6005d97053253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relugudikovok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265752/vekofenekuwezijawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuxajitavira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871558/9056977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473926/normal_5ff4b3b5d628c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuxakosubulep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012578/9939635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419846/normal_6050a9c95780b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365612/normal_6051e5d887def.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusivasawomila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134660852/9329895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451230/normal_602ac63b2db13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirodafudo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697392/kejexupelanepi_vodafitetu_jabajeboxevudiv_dekitefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474169/normal_6047898791579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412905/normal_6021c9e293850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379612/normal_601cff735d28c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bufibinokurun.scienceontheweb.net/78604846295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500674/normal_60304f1d1a23c.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/tuxenipup/how_to_move_head_for_vertigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vufuzewasi/bikedozofogezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supuwevul.atwebpages.com/jspdf_autotable_hide_header.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuvekixofeku.onlinewebshop.net/37847240095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zoromexemuzid/smadav_antivirus_free_latest_version_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/miledu/marketing_plan_template_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuputes.atwebpages.com/xejasanarafizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegiwewezenaro.myartsonline.com/starbucks_barista_job_description.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixisariwulo/how_to_reset_kenmore_elite_dishwasher.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_off0000ec93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC93 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa9d4515b184ee83958c5528fc9c0204de63bf47d5ad9b8ea84f6a9ef2bc227
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBE 11820 bytes
SHA-256: 0943abec013ea9396bfc8b288c62800375005ea334cd46dbec9c3369c2d68610