Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc118e73a41fc1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-03-22 07:40:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: ae05f574d5abad167c54090b4c6ec19e SHA-1: 60a0330ce9b64d0173f6c952fab7b7d2b658eef2 SHA-256: 9cc118e73a41fc1edc72f6c6d3f5b6d3c2fa43ec4994e4b3cfd6eba45fa5437f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/award?keyword=carbon+nanotubes+thesis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://palawawez.mypressonline.com/19309673589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nijaxubazaziw.mypressonline.com/perafifunibexefevukage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowopezamiw.medianewsonline.com/bruce_lee_book_tao_of_jeet_kune_do.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sunomedude/vygcsC5/fuwanukibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bovutolomevo/hjixMgy/starlink_stock_value.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokegex.mywebcommunity.org/canada_visa_application_form_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zipirevofu/2ZJhjdR/56880214496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dezuvosowato/fGJhiGm/octopus_garden_asheville_merrimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dipasupor/iidM5gd/funny_gifts_for_women.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijofotezopadik.medianewsonline.com/gugofatekugofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ebc1add8-0b9d-418e-9e4a-1e287827e933.filesusr.com/ugd/ab63e3_ecb78821dec54c79946bfa3bf3a16f68.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://917ed8d3-8a9f-4c5c-a3ad-554e533308ad.filesusr.com/ugd/a4e402_e5f544bae34a4b8da1a6fe2799c7ab34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bizedesaxifu.onlinewebshop.net/56236764643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://80f75f89-a1e3-4611-a0ef-7a704eb82da9.filesusr.com/ugd/0286dd_8aaa43bdd6c5428e8dbe366a90a6b0e1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dinilemave.epizy.com/pdf._js_in_angularjs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4bc473c2-84d0-4913-8b4e-281bf44fba2e.filesusr.com/ugd/a25dbd_19ded4d5757640ba81a5f46cf739475e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0cead0d-5248-483d-940e-95cc3acd9bde.filesusr.com/ugd/20d83a_0d88995c1a1b49c39527469ac498a688.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jirabasojexosud.atwebpages.com/aftermarket_parts_for_iphone_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e1ca4115-fb55-43f9-84f1-eaf814f8c83f.filesusr.com/ugd/18122d_5632145cd6604d8ebd4263520e9c2640.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://padusij.onlinewebshop.net/wedding_march_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wepaxilex.epizy.com/mckinsey_problem_solving_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://80820154-e864-4b0c-832b-212b24169927.filesusr.com/ugd/c12414_e5da15a458a143099a20019784ab5c47.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_off000142d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142D4 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 4a8e48b2c712526fbe689006e92d8eed3303e8f7e96dd67ca40cb2f31d58733d
font_01_sfnt_off0001543d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1543D 12308 bytes
SHA-256: 59add16e277ab4a01d70af97f1a3548a1256a35efd288a4dc727114997f19339