Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a693f499531acd1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-05-06 22:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 31466606570ab305ac1c88ba7356b3f7 SHA-1: 62830b2739c579216bcf0b3603555c3efcf1c48a SHA-256: a693f499531acd1f52a6187fd5b8ee9e377c0febe4f1b4484a387f265fec38fc
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs and heuristics indicate it is part of a link farm, with one URL specifically mentioning 'how to activate nordictrack elliptical'. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context. ClamAV also identified it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+activate+nordictrack+elliptical PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417406/normal_5ff8a061c83a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457298/normal_5fe1b4cbb9118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423772/normal_6061b614121c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382406/normal_606e3c3153706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477367/normal_60668c15c20dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470385/normal_5fffc757d182a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jifilebipik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375607/9978119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413583/normal_604fc9747647b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likimipezerejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682052/xagawapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365661/normal_60665cdac5ac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367642/normal_5fe005a11b4ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widonudafedezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776490/8961461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuwurata.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481670/zujavufabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495988/normal_6047f039a4915.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://e0271a52-a7af-48e9-8a99-924ce320ec62.filesusr.com/ugd/be5703_6b2ddfa70e6d4607bc10e9f79bdd03ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/semuxemakaw/revurepogozadidujesimenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jemisajoda/carrots_nutrition_information_cooked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://95e354e6-8561-4e52-807b-deb85f3b5fdd.filesusr.com/ugd/ca9b0a_bf5e14b4e0ed4eedb41c9a1ddd179261.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e7f45dcf-1957-410e-85b1-216e85a225c4.filesusr.com/ugd/a2c2bc_bca8e328f89641f1abb635fbeed3d42e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://36fc1fe3-b646-4cc1-b6e9-de51469aea27.filesusr.com/ugd/3eb4bd_4e9a46fc710c4cd68e283f1b2c2525c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_55e9c8a8e8324bf88655a737af1a4447.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d62ff7d9-aefc-4ab8-8cdf-af38868aea16.filesusr.com/ugd/54b9a1_41c8055345054a5f8c4e253b7cbdf5ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jovekus/garuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0dea665b-aaaa-42f3-a52c-f86f0fd1efa2.filesusr.com/ugd/8b9728_e213317534bb4da2b51bb1b83b95deab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://49550882-97ce-44db-a38b-6e383bb81149.filesusr.com/ugd/062c90_4fceaf0adb424a899777ec500aa79749.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10827 4852 bytes
SHA-256: e6622094045cf80a88c18d7e066470d11f0e68eeae17dd3f1b9c71677204ff34
font_01_sfnt_off000118c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C1 11936 bytes
SHA-256: c020c475d53a4acff4b6f184e70043ab3d1c09f0e85e348c51bbffdf9be4cb68
font_02_sfnt_off000141cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141CC 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330
font_03_sfnt_off00015664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15664 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378