Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76b8f3c46fdda03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 13:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 26e74c67f3b2ad92fb36de977456cecd SHA-1: 443a8d950ae6471185cc00bac57d8f06f73f723b SHA-256: a76b8f3c46fdda03ca64eae863f5100bdf27b3aa850338df0307e368d9d90335
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of numerous external URIs is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The file likely serves as a lure to redirect users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://archism.ru/pbw?utm_term=bergey%2527s+manual+of+determinative+bacteriology+9th+edition+citation PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403540/normal_60071d5aad441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443598/normal_5ff1759b8ab5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454672/normal_6030d637cb517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxuginuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346615/debef5f97b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379968/normal_60023b79008ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gudugobaxav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134500737/1737236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366976/normal_6003859c3cbfb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipirigemiwar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016889/3166982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422884/normal_5fede829035cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379231/normal_5fe31bcf4241a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofosefekilom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813764/b9f69ed56f8f2.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/8cdcf332-1ef5-4070-bcb1-af1e37aefa21/samsung_un55mu6290f_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togusan.pbworks.com/f/85491153343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b99a72b-c375-49e7-a4c1-54ec20eb2e1d/1913106910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e64f6327-d165-4a8f-a0f8-48925f431137/how_long_is_a_number_2_clipper_guard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/974ab890-0b79-4293-b9f2-bbeeda3b52b7/50344038282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8907f81-35fa-4c74-83b4-50fe7ef4bd61/fender_champion_100xl_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30098a6a-2892-475d-9ed3-0bc594a44569/farewell_speech_for_college_students_in_bengali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00eca99e-64cc-4ecb-afbc-1dfcb49bb4db/charlie_and_the_chocolate_factory_character_descriptions_ks1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zewalar.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144701586/pufoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67e4ef83-dd76-4497-ac2f-9082a5749142/find_the_orthocenter_of_a_triangle_with_the_given_vertices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/129d4866-3444-4062-b178-7eb00572eb8a/how_to_adjust_screen_size_on_a_roku_tv.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_off0000d88d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88D 5976 bytes
SHA-256: 9305ab4f85ac4d935073a80ae99285e7f9079b24f39fe2934e5dcb5273bb2bac
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD0 10872 bytes
SHA-256: e92b9b481a1129fe847b380d059e6c759ad9baaf92c47078867ec1b4c58cc888