Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 947ad98537dce815…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-02-27 04:20:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 2c741bc197437f9ab95bf0a2f7acbee5 SHA-1: 04f7fe67601f67981612698fc2f22f041a987dd0 SHA-256: 947ad98537dce815907555f6978637888c02766799ca9ac892800cd911a70984
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, indicating it functions as a link farm. Several heuristics, including PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM, confirm this behavior. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript for redirection or obfuscation.

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://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=goddess+primal+chaos+mod+apk+android+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://giromotazipajid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384567/lolidisal_sakeruxovisineg_pakugikaviz_kifenisonupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belujewirozem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681559/kuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pewatusikowago.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683224/jegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dajikapepexav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597014/430e17d81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metiledozixav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164016/3998985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kunugamonigosa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871761/pigujaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nojabepeteguki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134669956/8295654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixazasowab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588429/wimuvado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagamujibagixon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326067/vizidasodepipiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vusomafolu.rf.gd/buxekilibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fufapawaxuta.rf.gd/98882242260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://padunogesabe.rf.gd/dokekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gipumupanaw.rf.gd/74677901388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowupozor.epizy.com/ford_certificate_of_conformity_france.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sojebelevenex/lattice_method_with_decimals_worksheet.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_off0000de60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE60 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 6043d590db68e38f860ad5f7ca615f2c09870e17c0dd4acc025fb183f7ff8a41
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C6 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 6d98cb6fdaf67a0043cb1566c467cd4653881be5a8cad072077f18742022d006