Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89569ec193fbbadc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-03-24 00:02:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c86df0424752a087a9b8f2b9f83e45ff SHA-1: 22c786662926d351cb50d9e61cd46f7738e5e77b SHA-256: 89569ec193fbbadc40cbb1cd27a888523e8256d76e98d13ef1c2222e41c41ab1
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a malicious link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many hosted on disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to harmful content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, potentially as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=a+posteriori+error+estimation+in+finite+element+analysis+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jiluputumusi/y6hbAib/world_cup_qualifiers_south_america_groups.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zodavujera/gSggtgg/don_t_starve_shipwrecked_character_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bexubefobex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476762/6402123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimano-stradic.ru/mk_11_android_download_apkfzi6n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fawukudaboguris.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353338/ruwaxemuzofiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sirojenu/hDZjdRx/64847186665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/boxumiza/0SJhaUY/tabata_7_minute_workout_rocky.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelandofbadideas.com/kufarizonofajojaravitijuu8pr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patapirebitogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814085/388ba16fd2f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dudavizi/ZbMhcAl/pinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasuwupozu.22web.org/practical_guide_to_extrusion_blow_molding.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natural-shop.info/famous_quotes_from_le_petit_prince4oove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedsbadgeform.com/sheet_street_account_numberswkpv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/delinilipo/fuVibge/switch_color_pokemon_go.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakonuvuluj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135984705/7216982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pojimisuso/jRjtqge/56979841325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wajuletixex/ijKPwgj/7408846521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gatuwaven/hgEjfid/best_video_to_gif_converter_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soxajerufoxizas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880654/jojeliguw.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/c0ec2fe6-6bbe-4765-b7e0-cd5f6c72d44c/how_many_carbs_are_in_subway_chocolate_chip_cookies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jalasofumikom.rf.gd/34415230451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5632edf9-d5e7-4209-89d8-a0dc02f244c7/hp_8600_printer_software.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_off0000fe29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE29 5276 bytes
SHA-256: c323f714036cc0c5a21ecdd2720919df3d1eec23317fd7622a910ac0a3d0c2e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001100e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100E 11740 bytes
SHA-256: 176945687a6efdda233171439e9153a2fb4fcb686c3c66b7595652f1bf77ae60