Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a09e4906b7e12fb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-05-24 20:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: fbe1f1c0a8e2f010f437d997f7af9123 SHA-1: 9486f20782200dab45126db841a07782ae5dce3e SHA-256: a09e4906b7e12fb26e85bcf655140e9dbefbc1e085507a5430e0b8c32a71e7c9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. One prominent URL, https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=trumpet+voluntary+piano+sheet+music+pdf+free, is directly embedded and likely serves as a lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=trumpet+voluntary+piano+sheet+music+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423714/normal_60675e699bba3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446650/normal_605567f632d92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381318/normal_601d927dbf3b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379486/normal_60186b938f775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tazavujaxiruvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746990/3746374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471253/normal_606a287a2e266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonifivudinuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305406/netuvotuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387412/normal_5feb5fd9a4690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowafitiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608100/budirabuxijasibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451206/normal_6030e1eed81a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wiwojuzikog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136050554/ae2b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibusipapomokij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682711/vezefopod-vusowabineda-rexolu-pokagoxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367627/normal_5fd77d084314d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/legenapi/ba_exam_date_sheet_2019_agra_university.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0dd085c8-6ee2-4b9c-9267-04a8cff000b3/18007503643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifawekujiki/item_analysis_template_for_grade_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rujabepifar/what_are_the_domains_of_cognitive_psychology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/womirofop/the_singing_machine_ism_1028x_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xeruxaxer/tebakivosaxurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e902c2c-d52b-4f30-b674-b48b30c20891/what_is_a_clinical_pharmacology_study.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_off0000e973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE973 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa6c2d7cd5b21ca3886fc2833eb6dd681293380a0b5570899a42179ca607fd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC10 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 9d03386abe1fa47facde82aca9cf170a3695db44e14b5a38b9b16d2c24873bc9