Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28daccf25162ed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 12:55:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: aecca1c0810cf942fee4529829fcfaf5 SHA-1: a0cfb69989abc76b75c3fc61726d22604740bb93 SHA-256: a28daccf25162ed18d753b51ff37e7b7e8745dec43e4dbbbc5ba924142f936ed
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=electronics+repair+guide+ebook PDF link annotation
    • https://nonujokos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775252/5df8cb77741fc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416132/normal_5ff5f1fac6dba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vofitikasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871658/zebapiferakukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nesotufofiwin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381712/pejosizadukiba-reviriri-fejolosikuv-jujoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bujiler.22web.org/62123639463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rupazaduxil.mywebcommunity.org/wordly_wise_3000_book_10_lesson_8_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459483/normal_5fc5a3ba5bdcf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-remont.website/siwubeporusa13jwy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koxudizujan.mywebcommunity.org/kubakawezagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390057/normal_6032050e954f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radanews.site/420587477534b2tx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolixasij.sportsontheweb.net/how_to_rebuild_tippmann_98_custom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajejib.medianewsonline.com/the_lover_marguerite_duras_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzuxagofonokow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/jusekedenugemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bubewap.rf.gd/64997342995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5457524e-bace-410a-9ce7-c8d8bc0eedea.filesusr.com/ugd/f0ffd0_72ab288fea6f421cab622b872e240be0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3bcdeb60-9876-4d14-bc0a-1dd1632c647c.filesusr.com/ugd/16a96a_efe1d8cb22ab45db82c07db44329b0cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebcfae26-b4e4-4f1a-a5b2-c5bdbddc1bdf.filesusr.com/ugd/259f90_ca200554bc9e44bd94ccd153ab74e812.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1afae0f6-9e35-4dc9-9db7-5dbf78511926.filesusr.com/ugd/afe78f_4e02e5acdeca4929a362827e1c233cbb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_fe9eabc13e334b949ea0b80311339133.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_off0000e98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98F 5404 bytes
SHA-256: c591d3fd84e7e07b539af66ab9a2e751a8fa69eee1a45b7a0bdd6de36a0c1505
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFA 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 2f05e17bdc4864d7268c15239b4c8c41058cba5021ed6e9a9fca14e63f8ab164