Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c8c53b68c8ab56f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-03-22 21:08:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9b8794171b7ff877557d5ba3441537d8 SHA-1: 94a21580f18333ea6f2687d414a60f33d7a3628b SHA-256: 8c8c53b68c8ab56f9c3681c9ffd551c0d0a9f4ab7a14ce4d43a87a1c87ecf32b
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate 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 content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+flush+a+rinnai+tankless+hot+water+heater PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445324/normal_6049da51c2b69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xabisemegebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491474/6231666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekadewozume.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969331/5813904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpforteam.com/79157979807darq3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxirem.mygamesonline.org/33620388036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374188/normal_600f4e37b58b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zojisixu/PzwjcKw/vuvejafimivuvebodorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fadanade/uIpWbji/melatesovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jusapp.club/xabufejs1tsx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joritirumag.mypressonline.com/rakowezegusofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sewadokoka/gvSaAd3/fold_up_bike_electric.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerrus.ru/manualidades_con_tubos_papel_higienico_navidadbtz36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417645/normal_5febc367032c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kupuvikadob/ELigjaq/10540544525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gajulusube.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896651/ab2fbd81399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413109/normal_6011e26fb1106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kugukokoner.myartsonline.com/wetirigirexafimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d48abffe-9851-4fb5-9e1b-e1c2464154d7/20589653463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d8908e7-5e10-4551-9b0c-afd4f7fb8fc3/what_are_the_set_operations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae3a8802-1670-4fc6-9bf6-9fe9398cce99/how_to_troubleshoot_my_liftmaster_garage_door_opener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd2991dd-fe67-4258-a16e-f772f1c923d7/81462465203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71b60f2e-d623-4495-b7fd-04e8ba506fe8/jimabuduwug.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_off00010299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10299 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 040c3a679759727ff7be09c5cb17e499787d53d1beae891ba1d830989df76629
font_01_sfnt_off0001138e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138E 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d637371b89b43b6348e8abb687fb11ff460a62f6b73956567da88de99a1dffed