Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0c9ddd36f8e3647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-04-18 18:24:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7b427cfa09508560e6093ed1a8f952f6 SHA-1: de5e392296b39d2776eb7d57ef1657bf3e02b006 SHA-256: a0c9ddd36f8e3647b066e6ee9dbd889cee4ecd1ca5164fb3ef6bda8f84951b0d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms this behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm activity are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=diccionario+frances+espa%25C3%25B1ol+larousse+precio PDF link annotation
    • http://startask.ru/nanedejawakeravivofhgha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form-lnstagramcopyrightservice.com/texas_cdl_air_brake_test_stepshujwv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nejijilo/uLUgjds/marco_s_pizza_near_me_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muwanije/jbheheq/kukexaboguvikavabefefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bipilebel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606150/vaxezidanijiluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/supesuvepo/m3jaKgf/build_it_green_nyc_astoria_ny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gipekoma/aidiaFX/6040502795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sozaxejiv/gUHiehd/how_to_play_dominoes_five_up.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobopekajami.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314215/ffe12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fujazilumekopel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681311/firizeniluged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vikoparif/hjchhJE/17486597353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suzigenetulaja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134756603/gunilisurovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daxegajok/gcijgjB/telehealth_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nepelusir/3MqgtWf/minecraft_cute_boy_skins_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kedilexele/ggigcIS/xamaxuwitomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakapudakadu/roxifimusasixesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://43dda2ad-fadc-418c-a2d5-4b96cca2ed60.filesusr.com/ugd/6eca9c_dc58602feb6141ae8664c3c1ce8baa90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gopuze/is_sora_and_shiro_in_no_game_no_life_zero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c2dbac7f-2075-4dc1-ad03-af0d0352bff2.filesusr.com/ugd/278743_11a0e203f89c4e1aacad3a658533e9f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jovekus/aihw_health_report_2018.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE138 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 25cb5400959ae0aaf1e8f5e758182391ceb4bac431aee68a6c0e89bc88ed2d85
font_01_sfnt_off0000f20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF20A 12744 bytes
SHA-256: 65f777e6b6148e3209bd54fb375a76e445af9dda0530befc2dc00d7b7528b884
font_02_sfnt_off00011adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e