Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d22ab0b331c8596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-19 16:12:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: ca7b38d1b9bfb1f3639733a39c34eeff SHA-1: a5e9371fd0d85c8455bf66a782beea71c1ca16e0 SHA-256: 9d22ab0b331c85966a1203752b735a6dd11cc9e2b4f64591d9f758eca60d3cac
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, aligning with a phishing or trojan distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=casio+wave+ceptor+watch PDF link annotation
    • https://sidomepavoresob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135322675/buzuz-sopavijizemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riwotivadejud.sportsontheweb.net/31643245654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401982/normal_5fcc94d8c5974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuxiropuwomo/6hjhhhj/english_remix_song_ringtone_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382778/normal_5fdf45f580b80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nosetibadap.iblogger.org/89574595050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383925/normal_5ff1bf15905c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivegik.mygamesonline.org/megutile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nujamuxeg/hbjfjjp/water_parks_in_vegas_nv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pegepigav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481067/d9c2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kupawusel/iaXCj36/fists_of_fury_achievement_witcher_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461770/normal_6041e6814d831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livubefelamujir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134899239/69738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pipidopowewe/VhIhcjf/baby_spa_and_hair_salon_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kosadara/bikKvPr/drag_racing_streets_apk_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bamazaludez/7lihhac/959757034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jogekiluse/gkk5Kxb/carpentry_tools_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vosizijanad/hgIyjaJ/diximifabuxidami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizebojusur.mypressonline.com/balulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488560/normal_60332689f0ba3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ludirobus.getenjoyment.net/important_maths_formulas_for_iit_jee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tajiwikiter/gchjhaT/94612526089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatogevi/hjihchf/lewesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jimibidubarabus.epizy.com/namo_bhutanatha_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vifoxakusawe.rf.gd/kijitasareloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xanojeja.rf.gd/ncert_12_biology_book_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gofozumi.epizy.com/60121095782.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_off0000f443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF443 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 81e4a406b365968925c94560dba6ff6d609fc800a83363020ab477bd78da5167
font_01_sfnt_off00010579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10579 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 4d9e1c90433e716a7ee209f3ac5f07b237ce634ea06cd41e0d33aff7cd2c59a8