Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a202f0f5a99fbf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-03-25 06:17:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 4d1eff404db8f2217f98a746c85993ca SHA-1: 405bc0c7ae0e393bb08e868ac179b07f885e591b SHA-256: 8a202f0f5a99fbf75266e7ae33e5d7f7482a3c735b13829e53e554a114e1a9b7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=architecture+building+design+process+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411493/normal_602d345575736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415937/normal_604f4f3512549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446930/normal_5fe262be9e1c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/niserutom/sqsgcxp/pixel_rpg_adventure_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451019/normal_5fd71a99c7810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bevibubos/iKhe9S4/47840205179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lituxopevuk/vjbhijd/assistive_touch_for_android_no_ads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369912/normal_60267aad2ea4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gisepavuv/xuL29ig/95870070187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vakanaju/iihghgc/w3schools_html_form_attributes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487625/normal_5fcaf58fa74d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422378/normal_6011ef5280590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469631/normal_600e01dcc7ce0.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/121f0672-6c85-40bf-b784-93efdeb19ba3/xukixaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1c92f6d8-19eb-429c-9239-1cf6be91372f.filesusr.com/ugd/cc1a03_10a8635fa2a34b609ee72d838e43e4a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da75ee67-3129-4483-b994-2b8ed59ff406/oxford_english_grammar_course_basic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f0532cb-4478-41f9-91a1-cf277c4732ec.filesusr.com/ugd/8acad3_65628e2d03c74a949bc6e935743690c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9cfe8934-cc69-4f76-a0d0-2e9849ea4530.filesusr.com/ugd/fd9558_8121b3acfe684863a918d6da49c5eaef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d82d2d3-fd1d-4fb6-a696-a990b49d71cf/tom_clancy_the_division_walkthrough_ps4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7639a0ea-0a4d-4d02-835e-908974204378/beverudonelagovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a3c73713-be4b-4c8d-a01f-dab92ecb4e1a.filesusr.com/ugd/5df860_cf5689de89f24894ae44ada21b316cc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f77c8dad-41d7-4a8f-8d8d-c05149a3a236.filesusr.com/ugd/36d413_5a07222d40d04271aee3422fc89e2b93.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_eeb3a6d835ee44f8abd38a16fb0849b2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ca7c05ed-d233-4774-9cf9-08ff86aa6c73.filesusr.com/ugd/b42fd6_a8fae81bda6f47d48a6e24e786860490.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8ac5c8e1-9174-427d-95c2-90bebb9f105a.filesusr.com/ugd/44b221_a185d22750dc47f8b23430a78625e025.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6196a4e6-b3b5-4a85-a139-4ec84e0a53d9.filesusr.com/ugd/d01287_7bb5b35953e045d58c5b06959132891e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4121a797-204a-431c-92a8-8e24072fb342.filesusr.com/ugd/b972d5_acf8578dc71d4a47829c90dd79d61a99.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/973dcafe-4fd7-4bd7-a7ad-eb7ed5ea16c2/pode_no_ser_o_que_parece_download.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_off000106bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BC 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 6b12c287ab5245d80ec069a58387611f3dd24099da13b5d9a4f8cf55190e7ff4
font_01_sfnt_off000118da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DA 11792 bytes
SHA-256: 9461689b970ea409d527dece89f02a280af49f86720973295e41f7b6ca9a8ee3