Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a549cc8bfdf2e70e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 05:24:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 041a048c5b0e965119143ab4dda85f58 SHA-1: af5b5b33ae7e4013dbe5ceb83a271bc140f6619e SHA-256: a549cc8bfdf2e70e9af81777560acdbef0bfe9755578d0022bba43cfe24cd085
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or spam distribution tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious 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://synerhu.ru/pbw?utm_term=paw+patrol+rubble+coloring+pages PDF link annotation
    • https://guxodovuze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134333652/ponevasavudasurazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litazotivov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740097/josixagenelu-putif-riderelopirof-sirixefugudugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxijarekaze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326688/wozunenileget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupobola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999804/d08b1ca7f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podonajoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438761/542b1e9bc1e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givodevivunafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871579/mopafuluwizirata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babikovinemixe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856339/9963915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufusazowuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311692/muvalezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropesafubisok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134515157/retilafajoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutegonepot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016653/zufumerurivir_newudif_zoguvaregas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitipodowenin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135383326/8874296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopirepogoduk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095858/filuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://silasofinat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144476778/69744546900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawasuwov.pbworks.com/f/tolagirupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadoposapat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144648609/rafikebobakipulisamiluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijegazoz.pbworks.com/f/abbyy_flexicapture_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofutikajen.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144461505/nipolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobonagul.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144865917/rifepakeririsibulemagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusarolox.pbworks.com/f/la_guerra_sucia_book_english_translation.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_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 446247bf50b1dc015e8eb21744bb5fbbb59ac1490a9ecacb84a37fdb8c0dd9bf
font_01_sfnt_off000100b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B0 9824 bytes
SHA-256: b950595f834ac94c286252a0eff8ec1eecd0304f971f29c6eb38c0dec7612486

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