Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c06b069c74ff317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-04-26 05:05:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3ee5cca9ec24ce98c81b3a8837b03917 SHA-1: b3d40911177fcc1721e6bb562f998a089d58995a SHA-256: 9c06b069c74ff317872080c860ed79607886fde3a70814a31348be8624ae4c19
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=harry+potter+year+5+movie PDF link annotation
    • http://dakekunagefasak.sportsontheweb.net/xetewumajanawudeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaxagogilexet.sportsontheweb.net/22522196015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sobexofap/o5Mggih/lejomakaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jawefujivi/dVQgfZv/19186482900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamafiposorugul.sportsontheweb.net/74450311724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gesaxamadew/Igg6ujh/human_fall_flat_online_split_screen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nedivixozu/47gfK12/josafipizexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufofol.medianewsonline.com/21721324129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naxuvazexipok.sportsontheweb.net/pamiratajuxoxalivuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bc5ba30c-e427-49eb-abc4-9677f18f04c1.filesusr.com/ugd/bcd086_dc8716c5387247d0be4bef198512ad53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6998e30b-c911-4113-ab34-4c15204891c7.filesusr.com/ugd/429b25_7f1b7656fc2e49d2912d6ca1ac6746cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c788b29d-df2d-4d46-9946-349e8cce89b7.filesusr.com/ugd/a9e086_57207b6fb798413db1f1cc2c68ca5b7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://571cbd0a-ba82-408d-be6d-2df53a8fcfe5.filesusr.com/ugd/02af14_10bf8ebb533c49d4896fc14f99cfac9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec67d8a2-1d7b-4fec-8d56-aa75752a29b2/rerujomelisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5457524e-bace-410a-9ce7-c8d8bc0eedea.filesusr.com/ugd/f0ffd0_7840c55f6fb349f588bf104af64f687d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f11538f3-3e85-4c72-9be7-744b45f87f0e/5583287834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8dc5420-792a-4861-90db-09cfc8d8a7d1.filesusr.com/ugd/1378f5_ab57556e3b9b4a7ca68cc92bddaa6dcd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9849c7ec-8b19-4b81-9a64-db2537ea7c40.filesusr.com/ugd/97b1c0_0673797fffb94d4eadb6cc32d50436dd.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_off0000f1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EC 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 13a9b353cf819f44625406e055442b140499fd4fab903c8f5761b5fa3376af39
font_01_sfnt_off000102e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E8 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2a5eb141e6f7b087111eedf1662d45719dd87bae65e411424dcb06d2dbec42