Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84a26e8756d74af1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-04-06 11:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: c01905313c6240db1d48bc74cd1259d9 SHA-1: aa7af4fe5d7cf8472c0b4e636338a54a3bb1fd4b SHA-256: 84a26e8756d74af16fcad78215174aae596c956a87de7fc6e57ccf002020368e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting strongly suggests a malicious campaign aimed at redirecting users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://jottigo.ru/aws?utm_term=medieval+2+total+war+kingdoms+mods PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366032/normal_5fdd6e90ac851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413454/normal_5fed272ecf920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382973/normal_6056cb173bc68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443610/normal_600b21a1910df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447662/normal_6056899351ebb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagomakiluje.iblogger.org/tudixewotefilorovaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://karifopiti.epizy.com/wow_classic_horde_leatherworking_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/retisovojor/how_to_clean_vicks_cool_mist_humidifier_filter_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopefunexot.epizy.com/hunting_simulator_switch_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1bfdee3-5c2f-4022-a9f0-81a6cbc8c9e6/introduction_to_computers_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farefasejikap/bittorrent_pro_app_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03be3310-302b-4099-a052-003bdce6fe42/bujamuzupovemibagoponife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://356bbf58-84af-4bff-99a9-d03346e46411.filesusr.com/ugd/b5472a_9ab8e9c9e64e476592c164cb63767064.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxuxotarife.rf.gd/analytical_report_writing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notilud.epizy.com/how_to_get_sound_on_samsung_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekarevuwo.epizy.com/what_is_the_next_trials_of_apollo_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenofabejuvokag.epizy.com/free_kindle_reader_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wunozoviwo.epizy.com/into_the_abyss_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb7e2aba-a97f-4681-a178-82b73b0b548d/aeroccino_3_not_frothing_almond_milk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sakaburepagase/51073282687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1379806-7577-489c-b378-9193e59afee4/jbl_charge_3_vs_flip_4_size_comparison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/retisovojor/levuleguwukorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7a512b58-7189-4bc4-8343-f643fa9054c9.filesusr.com/ugd/1e52da_2372762511eb42678090e8b45c91eacd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6370664-b79a-4ac2-b487-b8868ae12d8c/palaj.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_off0000fc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7A 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 3a15e41e779b32579da034bcb8a726a8182dec225ec17a4dde5861b41c9dd90b
font_01_sfnt_off00010f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F36 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 10cf3d98ce8741a59cb541051ae8e792f1d31739705c1e2d5fcde9da4cf3aa1d