Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a095cb9af5183337…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-03-14 13:11:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ea1f917325a7665791682a5b0089089c SHA-1: 26560b00a1ac9ea2fdf0c4c6a1dcf15ff0ee07ac SHA-256: a095cb9af5183337fc38d5936f64d40be251bb4e23f330fc40534d1b7d98a66b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=classifying+chemical+reactions+worksheet+answers+instructional+fair PDF link annotation
    • http://dutov.org/fugakosowaramukaxopio66pz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palogipotutaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814365/c0dd887431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvd.bar/32866162278r4e1q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujibinofowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383737/f129dd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belkwigs.com/the_bush_company_black_series_reviewym1ap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kafememum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616831/gewedazive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moradudipomibo.mypressonline.com/convertir_de_a_word_editable_en_linea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebupemisopuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134706320/3070375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinenuxoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136050389/sajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokegex.mywebcommunity.org/the_time_travelers_wife_full_movie_download_in_hindi_dubbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citruss.space/five_levels_of_leadership_audiobook_free_download6y1vq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuliwegi.sportsontheweb.net/toyota_camry_xse_weight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://94226b1b-8363-4ad6-a779-e61b7b16ff5b.filesusr.com/ugd/b3bc21_5a2fded374634e8490dbc3b33782ac98.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b284e1d-502f-4a07-b461-1271ae8fe41c/origami_instructions_easy_box.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7eb3c74-9f10-4efd-a612-efb7ea03662f.filesusr.com/ugd/7198c1_69f58e2da0b7405297f20a075025474f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://091a8774-b5bd-4fb7-8799-8d1ca0ca44ad.filesusr.com/ugd/8716ab_e296dab20aeb4309b0c7439f5fdd675c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e1cd7dcf-8988-4be8-9b1a-722367337987.filesusr.com/ugd/6203b9_d085fd22ee9c4d4c8181a1c2736c1c9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed8ef59c-49b3-4da3-ab4e-117e6290f9e3/what_is_principles_of_graphic_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5acd5742-6ba8-4588-b685-2399dd3ac295/sb_198_california_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ffdf948-8859-40e4-b86d-70c1fccd7e2f/management_of_organizational_behavior_8th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3095c7b2-8507-484a-828a-6ef1ee6191e9/xemubodizapevujibevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajupigirosinaf.atwebpages.com/can_i_renew_my_drivers_license_online_in_missouri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ecef3a8-5193-4df1-8dcb-1b7dd0f2be2a.filesusr.com/ugd/e6092c_f8420b1c587340bab567fc4c6a18648b.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_off0000e8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EA 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 2011e77b8d5444293bf128cf51c28a768adad26183ac216a998a5cec7f176176
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6B 10340 bytes
SHA-256: d6d7af0a0f8324e01e5a6b48aedcd31e0080e697e8d9083c13f4dbfad0654774