Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76a63c4acbb1f75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-04-05 00:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ed24f36e37ab70e2b2bead0d3a5eed9a SHA-1: c4b89a106f4a7f7348a36f358849c15ade5ca92d SHA-256: a76a63c4acbb1f75bc64fb141927b445c5de48b57e7e0768c959cf24994f00d7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, containing numerous external links to other PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/award?keyword=acuerdo+de+paris+objetivos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tekplafond.xyz/ace_is_the_best_one_piece_characterf27at.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418764/normal_60414fe63528c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371247/normal_5fd1950bc09b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalcreditcheck.info/are_parallel_lines_always_equaljo8t5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://db6d201d-bdff-4648-9982-d9cfaac7639e.filesusr.com/ugd/98857b_572e3700b7084189883f1f1aebc64576.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://94226b1b-8363-4ad6-a779-e61b7b16ff5b.filesusr.com/ugd/b3bc21_5dd5f7e092bb4542b84022f488b8954b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pifetipopazemex.rf.gd/what_are_progressive_tense.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ee60c613-3dd1-430d-b711-08e3dcbf0273.filesusr.com/ugd/19ce5d_892d098bb1744d75be8adf40ae6b2c7b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2489a575-72f7-492f-b117-28cfe4a4d2a3.filesusr.com/ugd/d81705_3e36b1bf06e34088af39656d4f9c32cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://13a7c488-548c-4b48-b567-d2b0b9a3e1de.filesusr.com/ugd/85d67f_811fbc6343514454b095e686a7b3edec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f870d4f-701c-4ec6-bbb3-7277acc5528a.filesusr.com/ugd/fdcb8d_7282fa46e90b4e39ab5caa5919f947a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://997b2cc2-d96d-4654-b184-8a5d7ad473c0.filesusr.com/ugd/b8d08c_59d43b4306c249a2b7fc5e9a6c591ea3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://93dbb2ad-f1e8-4c6c-adfd-2ef134399473.filesusr.com/ugd/df4650_89d9a72e5fe84e64a74d222d4e90fb4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://robebiwasufilu.epizy.com/how_to_set_clock_zojirushi_rice_cooker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cae2aa39-5014-47ec-b549-0fed73f36d02.filesusr.com/ugd/c8683e_de172bd267444ba8b82965cbf691fc38.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d841ef3-a248-4e6a-996b-2d54d6713fdd.filesusr.com/ugd/1decf9_860f8822972f47fda91b77e9f0655164.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://21e323bd-7fdd-46e9-a6c7-4880e76d7610.filesusr.com/ugd/0a51c1_4321ce9e483647699aa03ebe207c4bad.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F7 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 7f65894409534bd0c6ebc29bb3e140a43769c7e263dbbd8015af8cadaab37210
font_01_sfnt_off00010c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5D 12404 bytes
SHA-256: b024446d2321a89131267f26c8fe20013e4a138a1e4babb486f638914dd3b819