Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 979df2f0306e868b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-08 04:08:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 15adef8280df10c5a13f49f856650ed6 SHA-1: 5346fc06a2b59b878a8ff6e993f0b1e8032c7a80 SHA-256: 979df2f0306e868b0625cab3f971ca545515da6a9f68fca0b6f34dfd3c26edfc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious workflow, likely involving redirection to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=reading+comprehension+passages+for+8th+grade PDF link annotation
    • https://xorusisu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314808/961ad20d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fegedagupadid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856554/kuxoralebepotofuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panulozeti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351273/44b24865c3edde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427300/normal_5fcfa55d2ce4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webebusili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969565/wedulina-vexul-pirisaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465018/normal_602e7fe60d445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454809/normal_604f7326708a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463830/normal_5fe7d503b840e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426547/normal_601d76525442b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4502248/normal_5ff4802bb34e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedowekogo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134609622/batibogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413977/normal_603d9df2c0390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mixojokujize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134387696/zonawusidomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370072/normal_605b8c4f415a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454432/normal_6013ebdd7f846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latijivetazemor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775002/5104336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vafoxerosasajox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135398531/befikakunix_ribus_kaxujiwupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazajiwudimikot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344454/7b25f17e6f630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://supijexed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144586806/38854561342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vugufosenene.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144618510/zimugumatagevonikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savavaze.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144475845/vazunovufomijazijisodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vananizi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144525456/23094611928.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_off0000e27e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27E 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 803c8528c40d1e059c38b577c70fe5a85a8906635ab19c1fafb52f2cfd2d909d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DE 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 671a42ddda4ed778fd1f1928b5026de97945a034c11fdfe42aa6838c1696c590