Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4c333edf113ac95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-03-20 11:47:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 021819e8222b20546e1b615168ebb547 SHA-1: 79687fb680d45bc91264a74cb29abe99ab714351 SHA-256: a4c333edf113ac9569a7e20e40d948ba858eb729be6e8ce6fb9cd67662144fd1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and SEO-optimized URLs, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=bose+cinemate+120+home+theater+system PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bapisolel/gjDjggq/strategic_quality_planning_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrighthelpcentral.com/jatafevijisudugawqrd2z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandify.com/lotukukuadyrs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/numavagoko/ZfggQZF/nomikijijixipegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387577/normal_60401ecfe2fd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xviiivbgz.com/dalukakunolotugpjp0q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jawuraxexije/j6Yghhg/best_trivia_app_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/furigelo/jghdgdA/slicers_hoagies_university_village.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4531626/normal_5fdfd89f5278d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/melobokodijo/cujgjbs/88589509558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481841/normal_5fdac3f39791b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f3b8d348-8566-49c9-a9f8-a2c3b9e1bc8e.filesusr.com/ugd/f1c748_c64b7639ab0047a29e59e2934806e180.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4feedef-fd2b-42dc-bf24-8214b49a3b9f/2579165465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ceb115d9-39f5-4c02-bdd9-9c046527f532/add_second_edition_character_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9fbaa0db-fe9e-443e-b503-3d02ea494c21.filesusr.com/ugd/d417e9_8b23b2b533c7493492bbaec40d684466.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c8d0f166-86fd-441b-8df5-aa5e6c6c7644.filesusr.com/ugd/f4b3af_ed5d83423d7a4d65a6600482d6e25ee0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75a697d3-84f0-44cf-bab9-f05e37020c50.filesusr.com/ugd/7c3584_f1b2be69e98343e1bacb51ba9a6bdfc7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://058da8ce-bb30-4b8c-81eb-8903018cac65.filesusr.com/ugd/ab745b_42c94836e9bf4797945869557dea3c78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a1da82d-21ad-417f-b2c9-18aeb97cefdd/tiduwaxisabixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/359a00f6-d9fb-4666-88b8-af305d13e9f0/993973492.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_off0000e359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE359 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 23999547de87b5fb6546cea1087cfe633378be83b096d4b03be5f8da5716c046
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E3 20564 bytes
SHA-256: 76711b42c30e450c6bfc41af006e35a1d3e1e5e8cc1610464ba39cccbf011798