Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46eeab89a6642fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-03-19 12:47:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 2d44da8dd48821ad18fee87c7ca3f44c SHA-1: 18a23fb6eeb7e56318d1a646ffa80cfa14df9e95 SHA-256: a46eeab89a6642fe575834a3f1c3b4f0f90e8e42777d34d394dcaa69928b1f72
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://soxebez.ru/wix?keyword=ap+world+history+review+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://narovomesizi.medianewsonline.com/analysis_of_the_road_not_taken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369149/normal_5fe349cc5a4f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumamanepu.sportsontheweb.net/introduction_to_operations_research_11th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495976/normal_605131af71bd3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453551/normal_60434061bdea8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawusewi.sportsontheweb.net/biregutipuganufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452837/normal_5ff4e00758746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373297/normal_5fcda751ce98d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416661/normal_602df4d25fb98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379726/normal_6006534dce042.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://44bb6ee8-a0fe-4f72-890f-0f0a2fec05cf.filesusr.com/ugd/b65acf_d13f59761888445bbb4205d2cc561498.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fd672c9-0ac8-42d3-9d3c-9ebb2fbea2b4.filesusr.com/ugd/92785a_dfd7ed92c8164c95a84fce83b207f683.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/meludav/72432829259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vedexajawo/nijinuvediruxizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lewuli/chrome_browser_free_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d4996ccb-aecf-47c4-aab6-3c4fe022e1b7.filesusr.com/ugd/b7ed05_0196aeef31ac48cdab80805246953e41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67bb8873-ca08-4da4-87c0-60a8072ebff6.filesusr.com/ugd/a838c0_10043ebc4c8848f8b45a619af5ae4d58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8ed62699-7d02-4439-b935-4286882ef7d4.filesusr.com/ugd/229b11_f2c1507002764aa6a5ef7cd7f243f12b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jobavo/simple_consignment_contract_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiremeresegikon/kofimalojororukikawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dba0ca6b-c979-46b3-87c9-041648dee063.filesusr.com/ugd/6f58fb_91ec60bfe5ae4849ac9b9a6e314e6cf7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f8cb219-4830-455d-9ced-b55e65700e85.filesusr.com/ugd/fd30ac_eeb8a52509f5476ea6550e7c57ff64f0.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D5 5048 bytes
SHA-256: d92b219dfa492f307f53914157878b737b7c5b775d96c805f6e0eca3a3afaeef
font_01_sfnt_off0001072a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072A 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 602be9da50a87dd4ff7a52cc996675f0188fa84ea0176669946dc947fb33c484
font_02_sfnt_off00012b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B80 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3