Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89da7aac07f68ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-04-12 08:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3fa1a30b4d5cebbef18bd0be8df3b2a5 SHA-1: 2ad91729127b0cce0f23d6c8786b9f471358e2d0 SHA-256: 89da7aac07f68ce675a72434182053ec715a4eaae019245a8830b1f6914125be
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links to other PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or used for SEO spam. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these linked documents. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=english+book+of+common+prayer+1662 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jirudumom/yrjiajd/83520110657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lukulugere/jj3mYgh/train_sim_world_2020_ps4_dlc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resesovazumo.iblogger.org/how_to_fix_samsung_s9_charging_port.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifivuvowebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316435/98acf1ee0325d23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nojamatisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384142/rokefisoxoj_reverama_sesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratemalopez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753477/danalabuvuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riwaxutitono.iblogger.org/90418054445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/molodomo/dlr3gVa/xivura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talunijepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599753/vobedogofumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuzitomizaj/ggeljaV/falling_waters_preserve_glasco_ny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dadirowuj/fgeCjhW/72573690568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detarekowopowub.22web.org/irregular_verbs_in_spanish_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://0dd0cd87-80d3-4eb5-b9c6-73c43c3a6fca.filesusr.com/ugd/f0b6b3_37f2f48b406449749ee5b812fcf08bd0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bamomaw.epizy.com/capricho_arabe_guitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/midaguvimabof/chale_aana_song_ringtone_bestwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3175e58c-9db9-4d87-bcb9-15e03531d93d.filesusr.com/ugd/c93210_1ec76a8a1d6541349dea75f28923d114.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wojibejo.epizy.com/21514821063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagesaba.epizy.com/82347800202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dalava/86567574138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosego/sasewanutumurezage.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001025e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025E 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 85b4cc7a2c574a73eeb6c0db07fc962861230ca7e9b4ed332b88761233883e6e
font_01_sfnt_off000115b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B1 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8ed58128059efc1ece17ade90db30ff7bbf5e2b4ab9491460482590d3d1b7d
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378