Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f323fd43948c141…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-04-10 16:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 074d942bc3ac7f36edf562df76c34cdf SHA-1: 20e5dce44a22db3ab77a421e6b896e1b5da9798f SHA-256: 8f323fd43948c141cd194e3d96072fcb28d1616aae51cb10c5e07eca62b3de41
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to printer setup, directing users to potentially harmful URLs.

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=lexmark+x4650+wireless+setup+without+cd PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sewadokoka/DfhaTgi/xotowebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zixafozete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349102/duziwera_datofitesafeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fumaletaseker.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381433/2971380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzabevewipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136087677/d71679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobuwovuv/PDYhg2J/odd_eyed_cat_for_sale_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falugasotemo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410545/pizupawibogegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajamad.mypressonline.com/12347435593.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/141fbdc3-43fc-4c9f-99d9-f8a09adff9f5/enterprise_architecture_as_strategy_ross.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5cc44fb8-c395-4d57-b66a-3629a10c46f1/como_aprender_ingles_facilmente_y_rapido_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ce16ad9-3414-4db6-aa29-e3b3359a7451/2005_honda_accord_transmission_fluid_change_interval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf9ba419-292e-459b-94ca-f6e1f0250830/quadratic_equations_complex_solutions_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/076010f3-1d54-4275-9c0d-a69e72b0459f/fedozogomewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb8c8f2e-3d2d-4683-a6be-14dfd094ef7a/dell_latitude_e6430_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd14762c-fc41-4824-a0c4-ab5d77d18a66/tibeleluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5fea0362-3feb-46e5-90c7-5a9b69f271b4/scary_movie_ringtones_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d20da24e-9ab6-4f19-8a4f-289ffcb9c17a/rebakobutogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/155f7252-3478-4c8a-a8e7-02ce99f0ee5c/lowrance_hds_5_gen2_transducer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1da429d4-118a-4998-9f65-53494a2300d3/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy_movie_online_streaming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivikonalijuto.myartsonline.com/blackmagic_atem_studio_pro_hd_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6290c879-8d37-47f0-80ba-6339ea97506d/74342693350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79763ecd-733e-47ed-83e8-4577712a8d9d/2697549277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajazimigig.atwebpages.com/mukelananufane.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_off0000e809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE809 5988 bytes
SHA-256: 28510fa2bed52d39231b558b73e86d832e70a1fbd0597c52093486b8782253d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC61 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 18fa78921c4f4433e31a6bf64d86105dfa9dc9ff961afaa0cc3f6260b94af9f3