Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8297d4b6df2f5582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 21:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 53c19e09ef05122b89c80f610d02d01f SHA-1: 0c562f94966529b3f2b119ffb2f7390433ca9949 SHA-256: 8297d4b6df2f5582341e1db0be572d79ecc2b4cca5dd3ffc5a638144fc796b9d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=lagu+boyce+avenue+heaven+acoustic PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481539/normal_60121ecdc3e06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urolog.xyz/free_esl_worksheets_modal_verbs610co.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedbadgeservice.com/11082018136wbwke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476757/normal_6030607001ede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465252/normal_5ff01c40ad230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhl-order.info/kepujogivamumitewubemuqqlwz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366305/normal_600ea2e61069f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sell-toclick.online/calls_blacklist_pro_3._2._51_apkpzi3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468871/normal_60379c73a5e0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavojutopubiri.getenjoyment.net/70712065723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuwefedope.sportsontheweb.net/remington_1187_tactical_carrier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wutejaxevewef.myartsonline.com/kewesigijavoxapakuputefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://625f08e2-3d8e-45b5-8e8c-b95d001c5c7c.filesusr.com/ugd/d94ae5_b8d2a5a795184977bd3c1d3928195181.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9d349da1-218b-4b59-9e37-2a90cab56d40.filesusr.com/ugd/de9003_b7938e717fd040df83233b7c78dc9d00.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e9203d9-9f5b-42f2-a849-05e42d741f90.filesusr.com/ugd/3527d5_5d25dd8510494fa0bc22df1028a4f4e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e4586023-485a-43f1-9451-2d404684c5b7.filesusr.com/ugd/95ff22_e22889c60aac4ecba3e97756de53137b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4590046d-f0a9-4171-b8a0-56ff8c1fe63c.filesusr.com/ugd/0bfb20_112dc500e92d47aaa163aed5c0e7252a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://misanedajog.myartsonline.com/apprendre_le_franais_vocabulaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://92ddf5cc-4ce7-4caf-b117-8241c553a727.filesusr.com/ugd/42bae0_4fec0ff7169244df96eee64d2385d94f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0c2a99dd-71fd-4a0d-b96f-672cfa785c21.filesusr.com/ugd/515c54_260fb826bb41449ba2ef78fe9476ea85.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c480cc3d-c044-45b7-a7fa-747782367dcd.filesusr.com/ugd/a26f59_4597ed9b44c44c20b18044b33d064ff0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2c9641c8-5874-4869-9b94-f1378e60aa6b.filesusr.com/ugd/efc1f6_6c21a9a43a114d23ae422cb9df57975b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://18b09f4e-de4d-4c1b-9fe6-be55c63b1c00.filesusr.com/ugd/cd81e9_af34cfeb07ba42f282b2b56af165bb5a.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e37e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37E 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 31da088539ade9de10ed31c03ba20811ccb58f6f5e16bf296a3b12865e596d64
font_01_sfnt_off0000f532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF532 12492 bytes
SHA-256: d95264d27169b5405a9ff212579b8f97098a8d0532934c936e15a15523cfabab