Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ad26a80ff92669b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-04-06 13:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5b024687b86823762e7f1de7e78f72fc SHA-1: ebd4d6232369f77e317f974e4694fbd2c9c983c2 SHA-256: 9ad26a80ff92669bcbbe76687f8a6a9e35eea8f32d0bbfbe2e269c25cbc3da08
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The embedded URLs and the document's apparent purpose as a 'worksheet' lure are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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/award?keyword=all+about+me+worksheet+pdf+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • http://ch-bewertung-2888.xyz/51570128317w6rzv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-you.xyz/tratamento_da_anemia_megaloblasticakzdl7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412415/normal_5ff0f719c5141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemotiks.fun/how_to_find_out_a_grave_plotf23vq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioit.space/paxuxegazibebupipojuruvod27rb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajiwurejedetu.sportsontheweb.net/motifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erse.xyz/kisepulepofg2px.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503033/normal_60323df391b95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382406/normal_600216a239581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genusadnlo.space/how_to_reset_a_slingbox_500lodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changepass.online/ukulele_strumming_patterns_4_4d4fg6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://card2card.live/how_to_set_temperature_on_whirlpool_water_heatersld2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxetij.mypressonline.com/basic_grammar_punctuation_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454673/normal_6037e904c3958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4e4301d6-cc9a-4939-960a-6b497c1efea6.filesusr.com/ugd/d78803_71c65250b5b5415da9d9677037a110b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://182222a4-a7a4-434f-839c-7103b506edb5.filesusr.com/ugd/224a67_6cee6336a5c64255aac10dff93921edd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xinifaduzinuvu.onlinewebshop.net/ps_i_still_love_you_film_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aefbb2f1-1cfc-4a48-aab2-d72547d84173.filesusr.com/ugd/2f3ac6_790768b3adef4b61b240eefd9e26ab0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e82ff0bd-cb1a-4782-8b92-0a0fb7657660.filesusr.com/ugd/d17951_ae71b181e2364cf299ccf4c403abef6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f740848-0e57-4b51-8596-564812021bec.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe17c_9955846dd55545a6832f3db657bc669e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://55d63786-14d6-44de-84d0-33f1fb383c44.filesusr.com/ugd/45fd81_7ddb9c9d55bd435f9f65f049c39dcee2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1ffb5d6c-d890-49e0-9b87-dc10fbfa49e2.filesusr.com/ugd/8bc2a6_a27fbfa0a17f4a9ca65ee2c66a82f7a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8d90b851-447f-4cfc-ac95-1e867b71b983.filesusr.com/ugd/b371d9_dd9bfe0c7841456fa210a905e0cb3ff0.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF603 5740 bytes
SHA-256: a0f14c85dce7aeb6191d29e0712cf02a9d370d292ebdaf483cff24a7378ce775
font_01_sfnt_off0001096c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096C 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 72c082ebafe752597f5f9636440bb52771b9bcf72b628dfc21d0e72da57048c9