Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9394b54b1401889d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.0 KB Created: 2021-06-05 15:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2ef6f7a05c68da1347a219178fc127b4 SHA-1: 2994c1232b154f4eeffe9bf29fc5a5b52c192c2c SHA-256: 9394b54b1401889ddeb32c3c00b18ed93225b6d112d51b70bace303a5f6eb44d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://medvor.ru/pbw?utm_term=cantos+catolicos+para+el+rosario+de+difuntos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tunugezujemis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307821/d3ae22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regujume.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339948/864735be3ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torovuzexas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710592/vejaga-jaloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonunomimir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681278/nanazosopenakufozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemafaparad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681832/fugokodakunidevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sopezafenivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969371/gebataban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://disavapiviloma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351159/xudajazebilalizaduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lejuziluzamof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863123/puzazuvegituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gisafonenum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323636/9094057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xamonato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814301/dafurulore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fowalafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134722097/c4dfd36136a490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruwawowek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712040/7ed9af.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/099d480a-0148-4d09-9d67-035face09ee5/48351724173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0843ef1e-fcf8-41da-9bff-0d6c86485009/51828920631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80deda48-5b57-4b23-9ed0-f86b39b6f262/concrete_and_abstract_nouns_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27716e47-3a80-4b07-86ec-70e92d195c28/what_is_the_effect_of_a_metaphor_in_poetry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a62df6d-6726-44c8-8791-3be605d95aad/desazabunorumidixago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a0501ca-c227-4655-bb85-5aaa6a0c956b/pezorolevonupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1277539-f2e4-4e86-baf6-7117b8d1e554/28715382714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/974978c9-2c80-4945-adce-85ecd123f4dd/torasukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11d25550-3933-43c1-92ed-e4447ee89973/zemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f877e791-ca54-4bd1-b6ec-cbd977efb45c/75740047722.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_off00018e1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E1C 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 2234ec13ae88e39d43a491fc8a15ba2a0dc8ff21887d2164971c1fb7c864ebfe
font_01_sfnt_off00019f55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F55 13680 bytes
SHA-256: dad2a991c1cc518d76662573eda300ec382971161a24d6bd6767913c2176e8ec