Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96a664452d3265ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-03-03 17:26:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 29eb5e85c74edc08b6cf0161063a0479 SHA-1: dfef77520b9e9582ff1a328428d55084329e7912 SHA-256: 96a664452d3265ed38f31cb09a5ccd526e1036cac2f9c85240811625fb980a95
186 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. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution attempts, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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://maypoin.ru/123?utm_term=way+of+the+world+summary+act+wise PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vagofedewat/ihwjjjd/zombie_3d_gun_shooter_hack_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonifosanonozo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680915/woziwutetugul-pujawiref-zuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitimewigupito.mypressonline.com/65836052448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabedokuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134582143/38cfebc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kerawidirara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746453/vunewasirabi-tujivaw-morajal-jepifosezidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zigivigafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392575/fatumobizamalasiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabesala.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394244/nemabifilemugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485435/normal_5fc6898f45b44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joxedobiwot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350216/3459009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tikalamin/BhgFqzR/business_strategy_2_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gijesali/Evhi4ja/the_walking_dead_season_3_telltale_games_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xunijejozi/dXtEL6h/parkour_gyms_around_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tubozabuzimez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878922/7806438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajukilodagoje.mygamesonline.org/is_marshall_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rewakevutel/jfoOYwq/harvest_right_freeze_dryer_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juvuraguvutoxif/fitisomavuwofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siniligavaxuvul.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_smoke_with_weber_smokey_mountain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fepetixapokurob.myartsonline.com/66183984253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nedijowewoded/sheetrock_around_shower.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9E 5244 bytes
SHA-256: cabebc385cfced5e318c5c007332d7334f187a23ec049fb43134d6c4ac076f62
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE97 10272 bytes
SHA-256: af010dde5d3d78fe2ea5a11736545796cfa59a67faf054ee8652f80e6804ed4a
font_02_sfnt_off000121c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361