Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8631e73550bd74e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-05-09 08:40:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: caac2b70b05d1539a5cf1ff9991b8696 SHA-1: f0df420e6cf0bfe322165216f2b53f268b8369f8 SHA-256: 8631e73550bd74e96af44acc6c30977c9eb11729be7c58128a89eb588e2b60a8
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, including ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The embedded URLs and the document's apparent structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=kubla+khan+as+a+romantic+poem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zaliroded/5hdgfZW/winner_soccer_evolution_elite_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellforce.ru/97781691887u6k4u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mawejoxejobe/XgiRNLj/30568847548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dronextactical.xyz/27895903940p86fi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbqjkwklnd.xyz/aging_society_and_the_life_course_fifth_edition0nmlv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/walekikem/hgcngjZ/moral_values_stories_in_english_to_read.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zuxifobiro/jahhgff/86582318926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wide-do.top/why_does_my_washing_machine_smell_like_poopoy214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481402/normal_602aa70bcc767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedesonor/rUXSjjF/gluten_free_cake_recipes_without_gluten_free_flour.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericksandoval.com/fisher_papa_bear_wood_stove_manualq9sc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369776/normal_60617b2dc1db0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cd29ef07-728f-4a0b-b57b-23e770395c36.filesusr.com/ugd/f14cf6_d829843af50445f189aa574932fc7c6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a6053a4b-6066-498d-92a8-7748b68531bc.filesusr.com/ugd/5f0d2f_c374bd20a09d476e87462dd9fee0418d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d4bcd744-2348-4fe3-9006-05b2fcbd3cbd.filesusr.com/ugd/704566_19f6250748cf4928bd0037fa027dd9ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wixanarer/50779731433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://883cd1dc-02d0-4059-8fa2-99201f92b631.filesusr.com/ugd/6166c9_3bebdfe3932c431dbee7b5feac454214.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://298c7861-702e-4dad-8e6b-798164301c36.filesusr.com/ugd/98adb1_a4bad584d322425286418f6e4fec6046.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://15319a82-8c66-4906-b3c2-464277991f2b.filesusr.com/ugd/070acf_098420bb81ab47bba16d763a7ae3c8d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://01ff271a-2d66-4e22-ac0f-a796646d2f56.filesusr.com/ugd/8d93e9_eec90699e9434759b71e6a3b6266c981.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pilazi/bunge_loders_croklaan_annual_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://07e0a16e-b77d-475b-b724-88bbaedb347c.filesusr.com/ugd/8e9e2f_96dccc2ba3154b41822eced79d0897a9.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_off0000f96c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96C 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 67ad0d23ce71bca83c2f89821771385c384eb717f7298eebc58e41d401725b86
font_01_sfnt_off00010c27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C27 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 8f9aa49edc7047c37e58289f17eb354ad35a85bbd5bcd744c705859263c17559