Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a156f8a446fd1c6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-03-19 22:56:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2a833faecc05df3c894020ae04167da2 SHA-1: 4ea07a6cba29838dae4f2f5cd90f68d8c0f5d1ab SHA-256: a156f8a446fd1c6f324dd8e006e95ae58a3f5af305f503c950d9572333dc483b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, containing numerous external links pointing to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+expand+binomials+with+pascal%2527s+triangle PDF link annotation
    • http://fikakutipid.mygamesonline.org/vekonoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivazezege.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041722/ranibebudariwakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobabinuladeri.medianewsonline.com/sony_str-dn1050_firmware_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siwosupegejolop.medianewsonline.com/23605006545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutufirix.iblogger.org/woxinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waruzakelejabu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600446/9354246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zifasito.22web.org/jemejajopuvegotogivigemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deponoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696267/ledikusijojugawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nafarami.medianewsonline.com/what_are_the_14_principles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukapukipek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636258/patis_boporimi_dojigura_zefijimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumagiwupesaka.22web.org/tuwuwulabefapigixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moxawunanenubop.sportsontheweb.net/abc_alphabet_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woxopipuwesubaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453061/f543f713.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40c2fe46-7e47-42b3-add8-78cccffe882a/foxfi_key_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce402f4d-7606-494d-8e5e-c02c98603883/kosolopilisibabavesunasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f71c72e-a9ed-41aa-baad-c4ec775a13a7/although_new_england_and_the_chesapeake_region_dbq_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bacc27a-c5c7-48f4-ab5e-8adc10972ea4/midimivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d711ba9b-76bc-415d-9fa2-1a5a7332d8a6/95071413983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8936e258-a60b-488d-b40d-88d5acea22e5/how_to_sketch_using_pencil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aae1901b-0e8a-437b-83b2-2df22532b433/92771217367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f238e52-f118-4db5-abc4-ab1f5168203a/common_core_math_word_problems_2nd_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33bd3727-3ed0-4a46-951b-ddc7a4d7ede4/prince_of_thorns_audiobook_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivowejow.rf.gd/81713010411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93322988-44d3-4032-af5c-4edef4cfd792/how_to_knit_a_scarf_for_complete_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laganomezavarof.epizy.com/lg_vs980_g2_phones.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_off0000f66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66F 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 4189455904c7210e92a6a28d6a8df8e18012ec8ea02c783896410ae15fed42c6
font_01_sfnt_off0001093e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093E 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 420e2251a1987de401880d8950756c193ec80700273620060120778ac598a0cd
font_02_sfnt_off00013056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13056 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333