Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a39a844abc7a45a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-04-01 17:25:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: afcdb7bece32df1b7cd5c5c945155406 SHA-1: a138be02bc58c22f68b5b0999b9f9e66537d55cb SHA-256: a39a844abc7a45a16fed537c466cc8b45e82e5dff49292800e358502d6a00469
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The primary URL, https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=narrative+data+analysis+in+qualitative+research+pdf, is likely part of this scheme to drive traffic or distribute further malicious content.

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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=narrative+data+analysis+in+qualitative+research+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzikiku/gjfuAhd/youtube_70s_music_rock_and_roll.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pemizirevubel.mywebcommunity.org/nuzuzuzogutosuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigezidara.mypressonline.com/cetirizine_mechanism_of_action.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vozeseseber/Ehbgfgg/41946228359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadosaj.getenjoyment.net/pebupagesorenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88cd801d-4e89-42cf-88e1-2bdd826a5fb3/zives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tiduro/vodavobofonufozujolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d3f9c27-862b-491a-ba04-365eb387d37d/vidujubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9042e326-c85f-44e6-b9b6-0c206471fdba.filesusr.com/ugd/0d2fda_72a3e1aefcf44b4aab84b5e2e0791db0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jodabiladezot/shutterstock_editor_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b79e345-0748-4db1-832e-4d76fa78dcf9/89370971844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e248cc6-9290-4905-98be-3d260fb12df5/moviviferiwukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26f197b6-6888-4d31-8fb4-ef97b896661c/52692559219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://femagela.myartsonline.com/dewepinudozapizubakesegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85cc532c-a402-44e4-a91a-1989a0d756f7/zuxisujinikamebovakelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cd549b1-5136-4523-be5c-8d696eef3d39/826160883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4b523d79-2bc6-404f-8e52-0acae4d2cb03.filesusr.com/ugd/fe1b41_c3bf8e977cc24296a84e2266b072a978.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vinejivunitego/55027872858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bezutu/como_matar_a_un_ruiseor_pelicula_personajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69cd1c19-7c40-47be-b84a-8ea0772652a5/how_to_learn_reading_and_writing_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1b7b715-4e0c-4533-8b19-3a41402cca7d/how_much_is_120_minutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rodigapigeta/debagarupejegukapefosofa.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_off0000f59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59E 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 7162b04e9ab731239410d307e5a9f96f3648b3a8889db86ac6310f865508e9c1
font_01_sfnt_off00010862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10862 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 71b25d0f029e36cdf820e953cbe0ee1790ab980651eda19807e58c3c2031dc2f