Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a781056f8e61b02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-05-11 05:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: b0111068d3df06c13137e0872e5f17df SHA-1: 5400c2c94e4bc39b49632cdb88a2b34d47e7987a SHA-256: 9a781056f8e61b02b45d0b8fea798422f0a9143a0c52d26fb9db8f04da3a2080
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to search engine optimization tactics, further supporting the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=bose+acoustimass+10+series+iii+cables PDF link annotation
    • https://suxugugufagiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740592/didopevef-miminetodi-zadalekopavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kepijifawobi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135388201/5906622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizadejaso.getenjoyment.net/affidavit_of_loss_sim_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jefamiwufilidiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409158/db895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasorizafam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096756/dd42d60049f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemetezebore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882820/a64196d3ba3de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c9977776-9e37-4432-9eae-e541147807da.filesusr.com/ugd/bb6cc6_a84ca355dfaa4173943c3cbacc33cf22.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b84f61e4-f0ad-4971-bec1-17568a9e3143/dd_5e_monster_hunter_class.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lazuletezofik.onlinewebshop.net/duzatuwagetupasabober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://571cbd0a-ba82-408d-be6d-2df53a8fcfe5.filesusr.com/ugd/02af14_d1203e7754f047fab0ec8e6a50334a9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://70010cfe-69b1-4fe9-a336-bdfe2418dc1e.filesusr.com/ugd/f1d680_22ffdc04d8734d0c84fb7057496ff5db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16da7b-5b4f-4122-a3c4-5c88c9d97cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/83f04e_6a8aaceccbfa4bc794c5b92bd9065bd5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/963337de-3fdc-497f-8081-b30190e340c5/average_salary_of_software_tester_in_us.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23702bd1-f189-4cab-8ade-ea5ba27ba9d2/maze_runner_death_cure_full_movie_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4328a374-8b5c-4134-9cef-e132ca5fc89d.filesusr.com/ugd/6732b1_0ba16935603e47dead3bccf8b755d2fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ravuxudibure/alexis_carrel_book_man_the_unknown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://23751d96-d7b3-42ca-b8ca-e459b671ea95.filesusr.com/ugd/7de994_becbb30c389c4c6d8648bfccab15da4e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bf6af823-cb0d-4ee8-9d5b-4f0b1de5ed24.filesusr.com/ugd/9eb187_037504f5e76e4b138aea73dc6b41738c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wujapu/78670524858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://34886cf3-15ed-44db-93e8-8979dc7c4cd7.filesusr.com/ugd/ea2c45_2b1e70224be641a29eae542978cb98ff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zafibimutadoti/moxowezimobupumuzaxiz.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_off0000df57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF57 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 09b62d2ba01ee2413c122bac73d2ecc9f6a0e9bdcaeaf3538b0dde176ae059f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF161 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 81a6ccb1dfcc4081c31071fa6efa34c7928bbf91532ad13dd67a5e3c2d0a4262