Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9598fe042fc74853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-03-25 03:59:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 26b9e1bef24e56b134f2124310afa470 SHA-1: 7656f5bf513c57fee8f59f7589dfd12cdce3531e SHA-256: 9598fe042fc7485358448ecb7d3170933794a7f2dd5206b0b8c5f4b9431bfc09
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=avancemos+1+workbook+teacher+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sadirorig/iqghfgf/obstacles_syd_matters_ukulele_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dumetokewip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134394823/b65176fd1d46f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tejidirexe.mywebcommunity.org/59152573169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dizarepozagipit.iblogger.org/my_cloud_home_app_fr_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarokixepoweso.mypressonline.com/tekukonena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazazurijufom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814205/xunibexugotirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zokuzovabodoloj.22web.org/biochemistry_laboratory_manual_pallab_basu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weralafopibobal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338927/kuwubaveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/makubeku/hgc1M9M/85671737005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiziwovoxapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134617524/e175bea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funavekun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969801/dafoti.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/7a829523-5e3f-4cbf-b695-0f4521d8bf0c/vewagatunodumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad49c573-62b5-4b75-8915-6a84eb16d0c8/what_instruments_are_examples_of_the_classification_idiophone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cde5474a-311c-4cfb-bf17-60f6bc22822d/83300564717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13ef6963-6a66-4d45-b08d-23bb4a9b096b/printable_66_books_of_the_bible_coloring_pages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8bea0da4-def1-4431-b73e-3c1aebc7276d/7981481702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4a359e9-0f5b-4626-95f0-c2b25e3ffe05/how_long_is_osha_30_training.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/36a970b4-c93b-410c-a33d-4087816a1dfd/how_to_cook_quinoa_in_tiger_rice_cooker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8b76e3d-21aa-4db5-9ef4-6b8865bf8b4f/the_language_of_composition_reading_writing_rhetoric_first_edition_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suwetiwojiza.rf.gd/c_c_renegade_patch_1._037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13316e02-80db-40e0-a094-0d8ecc21f4ba/63093635481.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_off0000f644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF644 5760 bytes
SHA-256: f43ae2c58374b7f07e24c9e545607b3d4e91ed1de41491882f644a6d947eac4c
font_01_sfnt_off000109cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CC 11892 bytes
SHA-256: 47b76d7b60fbe187e6372e81369d888a2c069aa6ad044805e2a69479f733ba21
font_02_sfnt_off00013278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13278 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848