Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9303b4194a4071bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-04-01 09:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0ef078d0ba367ed68497a2f038229f33 SHA-1: cf530d9b3a53ac56edfc2239b0570cd1363ddee5 SHA-256: 9303b4194a4071bb34018a718986de07efcf5468b46fd53a0493627e6c7eedd5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a mass of external links, with one prominent URL pointing to a redirector disguised as a free download. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or SEO spam campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious linking.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=brebbia+boundary+element+method+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485454/normal_5fda328375342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipodipotaj/fZjeDje/51891642740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jomonufo/2yjhiel/73336910020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412774/normal_605c60fb3d80c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454968/normal_6024f11bb2876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vedimurami/cjiNm8v/divew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/modojiti/gifhcif/dragon_ball_legends_ui_goku_art.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412757/normal_600db9bc60f0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/diratukuz/Hjfgiid/titutugovigadujosulakobe.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/9b403dbd-18c1-410d-9ddb-1682b869a370/praise_and_worship_songs_for_babies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d451e762-8e00-4155-9971-9512d28d2528.filesusr.com/ugd/b52961_694e0a8726814f9a9b0486b7476c2f41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/befafuni/66809480474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zukogi/hotel_reservation_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42024206-ff55-4518-9fc6-54dc81b37b25/gor_books_by_john_norman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://db244590-af71-4c33-bd6e-2f8f55f31281.filesusr.com/ugd/fdab61_d9411b57d39c49478a2c4fb1bdfc73d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8fb7a72e-8f02-4f1c-a935-e5e75207eea9/asus_x205ta_windows_10_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dobesogum/ley_de_blanqueo_de_capitales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4f65501f-cdae-4966-b9db-49b15ad9d196.filesusr.com/ugd/52b593_7875812cbea040fa8f9b634973a72bd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dusined/bodycon_dress_formal_dresses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ada59c93-fc67-40f5-bb36-508ffdc9466c/51168239884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7404da97-7fcf-4d5f-9d5f-3f8644e6773a.filesusr.com/ugd/35f767_18051e29202341609cc9886a5542b7b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tutasujal/sefotusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30f048e2-7586-4377-b0e4-0cfbdc533539/mubetedakonuwowitives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lodazojamuva/bob_revolution_double_jogging_stroller.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_off0000d6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AE 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 79c38a22e0e7059d678a4c74f2a68059c0a3a5cdc9d3149da93d04f916fa2c41
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 844ff4174c6d405d2d625aff1ab7d3ebb5afae674671841b50fb2228dbf96c65