Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fb854c7e08e74b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-03-22 13:42:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: d72a5f18c92dadc6ddd152ad64bc310a SHA-1: 32e906ba9e063f53e4f1b65ad448573247110e94 SHA-256: 8fb854c7e08e74b604a63a645220a779bce91e9fa543edba89470f6400926cfc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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/award?keyword=bioenergetics+biochemistry+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://texno3ua.com/71831700322sdsbz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fakozunada/icsaljd/91370120452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activa-fb.com/setufuifs4u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392857/normal_60383212dee4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rirerujel/7ia50zg/target_promo_code_electronics_november_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460680/normal_60411258eece2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kufomopinu/byjgVhg/uber_driver_salary_new_jersey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcpreactiva-enlinea.com/nugabedovodazoxuw7a7bv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keepqifi.site/texemiid0g0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/balaragu/Xhgggnk/toxasetematikopedogimoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bevoroxur/OT2jhhg/tifegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xadakede/RifKlia/nail_salon_in_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freud.icu/3354545373803l1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujipumelebe/ikYCYeQ/android_authority_pixel_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trend-sales.fun/jisofopetokepidoxomoturolwi7x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceit.su/dobosufk8ovj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gupidiroka/qzr2icH/34641924081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nawovoso/2iiljbJ/ruxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477164/normal_6013e52eac388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384639/normal_5fd661d801b1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416322/normal_5fcf331bb1929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://77ac2d45-d533-4b4b-a85c-01e81860bff9.filesusr.com/ugd/7f1ad7_6f82958692ff4dbfb967d1b9ed76c199.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d130471-2a64-48ba-87cf-8f1e86c6acad.filesusr.com/ugd/9c43ec_96e22ebc8f884df088a7491977164e3f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://18e99e0c-7034-4a8c-9069-267580a295b8.filesusr.com/ugd/b337f5_d562e977bacd450b80b59e85db81855d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e905a76e-7bc1-418c-be29-e8eda1603e86.filesusr.com/ugd/3fb32a_d2d312c9b9a14285b08e8a10194d8491.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000107b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B1 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 428d829abe20740ee626b3820dc99f76fee4a9d1d1fa682a8175998c1be02597
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 83e83de80c604805153ec3bdaffcc6412299ed64a793eda623f2365d3ace07ed