Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e80a29f86d481dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-05-01 15:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: aa1ec64634b75c7b089b300539162959 SHA-1: 51dc94ee1b77297f07bb3fc0e1ff94d0bcabf866 SHA-256: 9e80a29f86d481dc13a9a75176f3e616c53a32317576605eae42e45c7b91705e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, as evidenced by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_URI firings. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to educational topics, which is a common lure for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=is+college+algebra+easier+than+precalculus PDF link annotation
    • http://ganoget.scienceontheweb.net/adjectives_with_ed_and_ing_endings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewukagazub.mypressonline.com/harry_potter_book_covers_front_and_back_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409248/normal_604fa45032d3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378160/normal_5ff86e96e1666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fijufupuga/Sgdhcjc/mijugenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pajerelo/6jhjbNo/nemabepefatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokuzise.iblogger.org/formal_definition_of_amputee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubatevujonuw.mygamesonline.org/textbook_of_biochemistry_by_satyanarayana_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beririka.scienceontheweb.net/48777221821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goxalajiwon.22web.org/why_is_primerica_life_insurance_so_expensive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366389/normal_5ffddf64e1182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9d349da1-218b-4b59-9e37-2a90cab56d40.filesusr.com/ugd/de9003_1d9a7a1c8a2d4cd7afd196fb68718018.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca979bdc-6031-475b-b52b-371229dc0901/husky_hvlp_spray_gun_kit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/94a333ea-7434-47ab-99eb-1bb430f079c0/pot_o_gold_machine_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gegokuberil.rf.gd/coronary_artery_bypass_grafting_surgery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a775e046-b501-49d9-9705-94eecb7715cb/devilbiss_charge_air_pro_20_gallon_air_compressor_5hp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://45f91bdd-2b68-4e60-ae2c-b14373ae5332.filesusr.com/ugd/0d089b_7422d208353c4b0486b93a66238a4eb0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71b4061d-0fbe-47a8-a671-08758978b022.filesusr.com/ugd/0216f2_74dfc8e4ce0740b4a9463fe4824866b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49537602-68d2-4fd2-93a6-1b44e7ae07ff/twilight_saga_full_movie_watch_online_in_hindi_dubbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://befabeme.epizy.com/bank_59_mequon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6bb2b61b-82bf-473b-8365-63ddb02ddbdd.filesusr.com/ugd/d55797_714103201b0b44c19c8a100328def9c5.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_off0000f76d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76D 5272 bytes
SHA-256: caf203a3dbceb6bc5c6eac0159163461e856939fb566bfcce4e2086710a377ad
font_01_sfnt_off00010950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10950 10152 bytes
SHA-256: fdc430f933a595aa531cf976b47dfa1659ede768a5a0a84e74e25491cd03cb12