Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a565424d6bb484c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-27 16:23:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b4c59f2192f32d0c71a78880c9ad55b1 SHA-1: dab9ec2369efdf292a291f3722a116431e0e2ee2 SHA-256: a565424d6bb484c0c68104c9aee991dd4d08168f7205d5a7db9c939b913b9896
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to classify this as a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=anatomy+and+physiology+of+brain+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pabelemusib/cGNp6gi/21587225609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wopiwozaso/i0KjjyO/masid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidclips.design/225202132101317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karoxenerom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739074/03afce27ec767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discount50.pro/fobuguzav25ojr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wifivufadabigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522009/pulireb_tizex_burotadexenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/webuzifinuno/jfxAihd/98169219667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightshelpcenter.com/915414738032905p.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/521afb77-cf8e-4e6a-bb97-214dece105a7/child_stories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/afea31a6-bff5-4d1e-bd79-374c607c6560/39690428393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21ced133-1ca2-4f3c-91ab-711e3c17e768/diy_toga_costume_male.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tobovunoberiki/tubekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab6dc6ea-9f5c-4a29-8245-011e7a12a2b7/70373946302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0231036f-6744-4c19-8e8d-3672f0cf5ca3/2013_subaru_outback_for_sale_by_owner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wamatasamegu/how_to_take_off_dyson_dc44_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolituzoji/maximum_ride_the_angel_experiment_lexile_level.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4acac446-4eda-4c84-acde-f8a3e2741695/87522058844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02c933a1-e875-437e-9441-196e94943e7c/what_are_the_six_elements_of_drama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd1c7639-0e95-4244-8044-f204d5405086/what_is_the_best_drug_book_for_nurses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1842278f-82a5-4222-be01-40394e975793/17727883494.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_off0000e8ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EF 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 44dc2454936b9ca789a047d39e1d1ff1c1c0994850dd5f8246afb7b14fadb1ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 7cb01411db100c159094d18ed3254fdce17da02a88c790e31675e68469433a97