Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4a7be510870a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-02-23 22:47:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab8e010d48235d573d6da3168b66a877 SHA-1: b2e3289a0ed7603a5f5b5f1fc3f2120dc87988f2 SHA-256: 8a4a7be510870a6f545a15032c820e7ea2b512a063eafe08f084ff043876e29f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with several pointing to disposable domains and identified as part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to host multiple links on potentially untrusted hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/strik?utm_term=how+to+say+hello+in+american+slang
    • https://kakoxisowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358665/zorivu.pdf
    • http://openplafond.xyz/26047579488jrbdl.pdf
    • https://bipokedofep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135322207/7254456.pdf
    • https://jubewujug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653216/mataxubunu_gipawo_gilafop.pdf
    • http://makamar.online/direito_civil_esquematizado__carlos41p1b.pdf
    • https://falopizesolirod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379111/rurar.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://todamabofadufod.epizy.com/bacterial_biofilms.pdf
    • http://pumumiz.epizy.com/recent_advances_in_structural_engineering.pdf
    • http://gabifuzof.rf.gd/28937751651.pdf
    • http://gagonunanu.epizy.com/define_psychosis.pdf
    • http://texatopewewew.epizy.com/arduino_pro_micro_bootloader.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1ee.bin
2a60df4690077dd8ce213bccb6f946c8ffd283084299318d27bb706e378500f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EE 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41b.bin
3e642677738663fe066cc0c48c8037576c55fcc4e0b274957c2938a7691b1451
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41B 10784 bytes