Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9130ad640e865ee0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-03-06 01:42:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: d64575a84a43d3264bf8f88c37d55d48 SHA-1: 6d108c46902d78fa676807cf8098bb2b2be46a7b SHA-256: 9130ad640e865ee03a0c4f901579c400a61e6d001b41b971d6b0ed3f0ad71a8c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to study guides, aligning with a lure to trick users into visiting malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=the+breadwinner+study+guide+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://tirokaroxere.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740449/2541496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mogimetekojubar.scienceontheweb.net/nomije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/definuseju/hezib9s/66544648625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/futevanu/iecchaL/iowa_80_truck_show_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jekenufakewe.mypressonline.com/add_and_subtract_fractions_with_unlike_denominators_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wexabegolorumad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351445/9122b90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nafarami.medianewsonline.com/wahl_clipper_9818l_charger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bupedamarib/ZIEgeVs/14135728030.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/4e155954-ae5c-415d-85a3-e0d3858cca3c/what_was_invented_during_the_agricultural_revolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/503bb59f-97c2-4d20-838b-c5fa9fe1b4ce/93965617396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51ffbc53-dad8-4ae9-a0fd-e6b4daf65285/sony_hdr_cx405_vs_cx240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linexiziretewoj.rf.gd/how_to_use_the_z_table_in_statistics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c470e32-3a87-4fe4-9c3c-43cc752d779a/tipos_de_sistemas_polticos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filabos.epizy.com/what_is_the_best_coding_language_to_learn_first.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf37dd4f-3353-40f2-9fd6-4cf8042cdaad/kohler_engine_parts_distributors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suwuriru.onlinewebshop.net/what_does_the_yellow_dot_mean_on_snapchat_next_to_my_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muduwabu.rf.gd/texas_evidentiary_search_warrant_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90769162-4223-4ffc-986a-a27861a964f7/vicks_mini_cool_mist_humidifier_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e246681-6f78-436a-89c9-c47f4cb3cc58/luzodulatetikereb.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_off0000f198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF198 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 148e087d05e4b17f619bc761c2a75a891a1b6fdf1fbb848d1fd7ef4cc572f6a7
font_01_sfnt_off000103cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CC 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 5e011e364876c33aa5113cd0b5a014269f1d629c5516a931f9e08cf73a4860b4