Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42f43661779b4cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-03-16 20:51:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 0c2b302d98e12e59c6a8f773382f1918 SHA-1: d9bbc8e71e69cfe0db9c3788c21445841e37dc90 SHA-256: a42f43661779b4cf4f4cc4a0616fd1181532625a1e9d54ee1feb5daf549ac0da
246 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 document contains a link farm and a lure for a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade gateway security. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate the download of further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wix?keyword=free+ftp+site+to+upload+files PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dukoredod/ibhboEA/13422612489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381340/normal_600928f2d95a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kazamepa/ghiicjg/67290105431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kibutonap/gj5dtLc/mix_paint_colors_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumalazari.22web.org/rockabye_full_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/repudodo/1jdhciP/heart_of_darkness_3d_glasses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414695/normal_6036cc3f03621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480905/normal_60451466246c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421061/normal_604d5c087aa79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413469/normal_5fce9a1290b81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fupupusamun/jdbibnU/59151060494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://033a7475-7ccb-45c1-8f1e-38fd320d48d0.filesusr.com/ugd/03a576_4f3ce0da2c024f10a4123c02b7e4440f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90a02b23-703d-4cfc-8fb2-1f0d40a64ab4/49942990224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03858be3-c991-4666-bec7-17bcd2451ae2/vienna_chestnut_netherland_dwarf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9764c975-acb6-4bd5-a3ff-b1f4624bc9bc.filesusr.com/ugd/5bcb7b_454341a2f3c545eeb34d0af00eff29e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5204ae29-094e-4828-bb2b-a584abc4ab8d/rabbit_hole_bourbon_sherry_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://081e7fb2-604d-424b-9b75-a58d54a71a44.filesusr.com/ugd/abd6ea_e04bc849a0174c87ac3573bff0cbe146.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9ebe8999-295a-4f11-87dc-c96f3e1b46ff.filesusr.com/ugd/8de238_8c1f6b2c878c429680e49bb299c14952.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/138bc6b0-4bc9-449b-944d-ae6f807ff71f/84079551993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e758f2c-5a0d-4b9f-b570-2a2a2a585834/what_are_the_biblical_ages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31584848-a12b-40b7-b716-e10278bc5d8d/best_place_to_buy_grass_seed_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://28f2c00a-638b-45ec-8848-4d649cb6aba9.filesusr.com/ugd/946f28_0001fcec261a484980e447b4fee9b140.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://witanubi.epizy.com/23563412962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixodog.rf.gd/84060583493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42d893c4-a89c-4847-918a-1f4c26b0c78d/how_to_enable_adobe_flash_player_chrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/279b6194-82c8-4d8c-be54-6145dcc46442/57722975427.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_off0000fd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD81 4988 bytes
SHA-256: f7400989096b9e92f10baed8735f45da4fbf373aa72b663c67bfa699e536fd3e
font_01_sfnt_off00010e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E89 11196 bytes
SHA-256: a78e5c45bcceaa35ca577cdaa7c2fdff566bd68f47c44d85a297f7a8a4cdad24