Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93030b37d3d17b38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-03-18 14:08:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6856f2bd39eb700e7c6199408055feda SHA-1: b68e7ba05c758bf75225bfec6c8d3a43b94cba94 SHA-256: 93030b37d3d17b381282fd68eba165d12a271e15449eec63a916e754594a729a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/wix?keyword=monster+hunter+ps3+split+screen PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/livulopo/UCrCghL/44811155939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mozulunilex/Giagjvr/14988255419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitar.su/how_much_does_a_director_of_analytics_makeiuor3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buvaboda/4icKjhO/tnt_mod_minecraft_1._14._4_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kixagixupo/aJEhfgi/defender_hd_1080p_8-_channel_1tb_dvr_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luwibajik/emBvehr/15819596317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/netimawifes/gj63hfl/nemupikunubobekike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463809/normal_605280b210dff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380682/normal_604493e1498e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takipleskazan.org/284529376467dq7l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xipitufekaru/14lgcug/city_university_of_hong_kong_address_postal_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prazdnikprosto.ru/facebook_login_identify_friendsn7cmy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bonosexov/ghiiiha/4031196284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gunonutib/hblE7gd/mix_color_puzzle_game_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454668/normal_603e8870d04c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturwow.space/identifying_scalene_isosceles_equilateral_triangles_worksheetsqpnif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djami.ru/76243163539pe3jx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zudusidesu/Yxdhjhj/dusixiduxezerugizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jagojixego/jgoxoAM/norse_mythology_vs_greek_mythology_essay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/damukowabij/9kjejhK/19316619077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422144/normal_601425e41b66d.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/2b059d39-1771-467e-8cf9-b77cfb747c56/betijudadamuzuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1468b6d0-b045-4d19-95b3-6f02171ac6e1/national_highway_safety_administration_discount_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48a8f063-23c5-46a6-8bd1-d2b745658a79/90419262981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4010fab3-6f54-40db-8086-ba7a1b634bf0/what_is_the_walden_woods_project.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_off0000d3c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C9 4980 bytes
SHA-256: a928a097f66637f24f475a27dccd0fb4b0aefbe3613ef46d26382bdfd3fa6307
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C3 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 3425aa62b8ede8a47ff97c2218e0978e5b2096d19d72b0de3bcc3399359fa897