Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f15bd8152d9757d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-03-15 17:13:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f9eabd1a75366a43e9f603ff64bb0d05 SHA-1: 7d0a243c4ab272f905ba89c10c43298ad54fc757 SHA-256: 9f15bd8152d9757d6f7ecc94a5fe581df505422c902141036d94e96249a45355
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains a large number of external links, indicating it is likely part of an SEO link farm or a phishing campaign designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful content.

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=subject+and+predicate+worksheets+3rd+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://runolive.com/seismic_isolation_for_earthquake_resistant_structuresr1g6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kipaselofuza/p83gdih/sunujaduwuxadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipoteka.net/bedamitawimibuzaebaa9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goproonly.com/zawenuwolunavexarujanefaz6twg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodamewope/WGhfgib/caponata_napoletana_ricetta_originale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giretalude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677333/momubutedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zijananuwale.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134438714/6713733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vixixufabajuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163632/dafuletakezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jukowejazus/hfU31ge/civilization_revolution_2_achievement_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8770b8fc-1761-4af9-bce3-ef0e495d9f90/what_is_a_wake_after_death.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2fe64402-8bf1-4dc7-8e2c-17af36abac40/el_pollo_loco_shrimp_tostada_salad_calories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rodiligarexo/51850564281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f96edfd6-8763-42df-8fb7-0e2b090b06b8/9223216108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8540295d-c987-494e-a324-efaac696b4f6/7961879085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4da3c5b9-66c8-470c-8ccc-7043260a1ac9/bedidixevuditisozumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rekawexuretowo/44247769890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b92f304-811a-4db0-a7a6-dd770195748d/lotus_sutra_kern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2db6f494-1796-46b8-84ea-d183dcbed480/how_much_does_a_wolf_induction_cooktop_cost.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_off0000d271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD271 5940 bytes
SHA-256: 8c3c88524bf7a3b598d526870b7881ac29fc89c74f9c9c0d449014f68e266380
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B8 10272 bytes
SHA-256: ba097c7cda34f76bd4c48076bd23877ced33571103ad62aaefc499c2286772b3