Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859aaa1374224324…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-04-03 14:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: bdd1b87840db12b05d5db2917fdb77fe SHA-1: fc6e0ec57601ae0fb103044e42b359c30e005451 SHA-256: 859aaa137422432438fe4049c0b271791dcb1d48dd68875cf671ec0b4ec0f8fc
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs points to a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://xezojetit.ru/award?keyword=cancionero+cristiano+con+acordes+para+piano+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bexamajuw/hagcheM/go_home_color_jumpsuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoxuzuxebexot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969059/9293da853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493881/normal_60409f72e73e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zalekekowijix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346798/687149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepiguresibano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352921/zipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470029/normal_5fddbd0cc7116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagiburefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108706/duvowobenexapafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4528959/normal_60489534e621a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawokopo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314789/4874555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fimozafovobas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741130/16dbe136e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461207/normal_6048ff52504b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusikazokek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453156/bejaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kegufamop/jcds1K7/86600441297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubuzetuwifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134703000/3151027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fofodafexadu/wgebfnF/blood_pressure_cuff_manual_target.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481055/normal_602557cd13450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d99c26cc-8c68-456d-a039-1a26994c8d26.filesusr.com/ugd/105a8c_426408c8aea3448aa76a797f48cf8377.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25ea0b78-1fa9-4139-97d7-4bd462d9af1e/how_to_use_chefs_choice_15_trizor_xv_edgeselect_electric_knife_sharpener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec8c99fd-5413-4e38-b6a0-2ccbba71fc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/de02f3_eaec29c579a74273b95024c5f11ea1ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2ed2fc7-543a-4775-95ac-b5a02937fbb6/which_of_the_five_arguments_for_the_existence_of_god_is_more_manifest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d8ec88ce-93b1-4b83-b294-7016fd5b5063.filesusr.com/ugd/366252_a40f1aaea43045f886d80008f98b70e0.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_off0000e687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE687 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 5edb0ea66e20dcdc1a2e7e73b013ded3c10b21169fcb28df8ecc4114f7bfff81
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A5 11684 bytes
SHA-256: 11c460b8ee272b6dad082bf3239a54e0de6e7bca8693867cba3c43fafccc02f0