Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88a09d66f3e20e58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-04-22 20:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cfcdf9ffd1b82859968c2bd3e51d8753 SHA-1: d66ffc23fb4f75717a63cdf85145bfe7eb90b600 SHA-256: 88a09d66f3e20e5857cc7b1f321880e4937eb7e04ad259c1ac64d02312bc3080
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as part of a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains a title related to a common saying, likely a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=where+does+the+saying+not+my+cup+of+tea+come+from PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367000/normal_5fd16ece8e495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pajilolupifi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302794/saruzinerenuz_gupawutobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447079/normal_601bcafda41c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366044/normal_6020a7599a3b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462036/normal_60232f7ad5509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406482/normal_600de43153db5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369626/normal_6001d4f634a3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450340/normal_60294ceaca3f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451754/normal_60679740e0e6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378151/normal_6049d3be9b172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460677/normal_603e3af066352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zorovapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303286/66abd4cae2fb74c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7344196b-8d0a-47c8-bbab-1e5dc9442fc2/hyd-mech_s20_series_ii_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1915c2ed-0201-448f-a50b-8aa428f9ad40/allegiant_free_personal_item_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac660f9b-6fcf-4379-91d3-3bd932c350a4/glencoe_geometry_chapter_8_test_form_3_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1b53f64c-3596-40ff-86ea-95cec8902569.filesusr.com/ugd/838e7e_3b5cc04889df44e88a43c74f810c1776.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea966a9a-96d3-4c1f-8f8b-9b0fba32650c/gidunadonowamorebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0b7b936c-93ac-4a60-9644-6ba220b934cc.filesusr.com/ugd/b4bf80_c4e412401740464fa29731bd99963fc4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9f349447-249b-4747-956a-316fe86e371b.filesusr.com/ugd/d2b720_5fae31debee148f08eff6d9ef84ed9ab.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_off0000f13f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13F 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6bcace35caa84c1e30f91fec34a5c03074a2ec5c25c466c2c292b6b484502b
font_01_sfnt_off0001046a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046A 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 81eadbd51528c652d994151bb67b368458df2f9e70c2d7e59466336e6b855a21