Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9396dc338e840bbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-02-19 10:21:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: d2e02b87c0b187aa9d48cb77162fc816 SHA-1: 3dc57d427cfe79b2392a947df6146cd32ebe7408 SHA-256: 9396dc338e840bbdf87615584901d57b78c0d04cf6011a92176f4653b2266ae5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of 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 to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://seumenha.ru/123?utm_term=dell+optiplex+gx620+specs PDF link annotation
    • https://tetemubegogik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134443084/tusivimuk-mumabofudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408589/normal_5fd2a42f05bd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487618/normal_5fd338390617d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemezixogasowed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637562/medofasinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jozazixefuf/e48jagj/wosabejaleralazoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuvapele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738919/4011912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417813/normal_5fe52bf8c016b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kefavemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042724/96ad923ada1c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sovivagigeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135296454/786a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/datujisukebe/zQEhahd/gewelemosaboduriwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koduxiwarutuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740502/zikipitof_relov_nekudilafa_pelupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390074/normal_5fecf93abaaf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kekoseni/c1haVjh/driving_zone_2_racing_simulator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fusaduxuw/rBemhbx/73068236973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jujojomojemiz/weviperepaxovazumalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowupezik.epizy.com/apocalypto_movie_online.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D0 5288 bytes
SHA-256: b1a5963316e071191d22511ce7cc42c7aa2cebafb883f76bf358bd7fe7c20957
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FD 15520 bytes
SHA-256: 2112555f03f90cc891a5eef469d7ad91b928e6f786bb4d973f099478567ec49c
font_02_sfnt_off00012357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12357 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7