Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a803f0b4208513ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 03:01:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 00c3817b40c6855f50db1e5d10b26523 SHA-1: d46ee8c0db2bf08f573ba69f5e2d4c386b592c2d SHA-256: a803f0b4208513ff0334e88f44fbb62bd7a5521c83c91657a280aa516107c473
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 and a phishing/malicious document. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious or spam content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=b+tet+notification+2020+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://national-verifyteam.com/yahoo_mail_attachment_androidqppku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarovew.22web.org/nda_2019_answer_key_upsc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wudatoguji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885495/vinarizawubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitmetrospecstroy.ru/52023849847tu8et.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jejuzuvavat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135384919/3a732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bebibamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438385/1051491f99cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepulumowuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681954/diweruni-nilusixok-bimedotexiboj-begupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinograd.io/test_statistic_for_paired_t_test_formulaxpdsm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikubuji.iblogger.org/tejidigijonizugetemaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odemebayisitrafik.com/business_process_modeling_example5z3mo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosawopidelogeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134714887/5250463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domemasajexal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304114/selenesizalizafo.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
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://pakabofenup.epizy.com/carotenoides_antioxidantes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duvujod.rf.gd/tomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://141ebdc9-a3c9-4c6d-b8f9-366dbf139dec.filesusr.com/ugd/46bfb0_b3ad453b612a453ab3f77f41f24d40bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dd907c4b-492b-4b4d-bf3c-9f0b7a2bd2c7.filesusr.com/ugd/96a426_0ccb55f39a3644b186a05ef22e58efad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6739ca04-605d-4ff4-b4c9-4e5bd75a7819.filesusr.com/ugd/031dda_273fc892eb1042c8beba011b7edcd097.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2b81f3f0-3f46-42ff-87a7-5865dd96cd3c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb41f9_88ff4f58622b429a85240f01b53bdc52.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://923a8ca3-316b-4844-b38f-9bc955ad4852.filesusr.com/ugd/312e0e_b7f6f12ccbf74856a3e4f0a8b77473ff.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91E 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 540b1d8d7dc9e66bef16437f00a9edea9ee912356a5ebed1822a676b35fb636f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A80 3720 bytes
SHA-256: b91f3c26f37c28538ed09035cbea6f9221827f1e30b50c452f08cc820bcc167b
font_02_sfnt_off000115e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E3 11112 bytes
SHA-256: a152c319f785b0390d3fea7775af9ec30910c47e83a5a1c781d5f3a99004ecb6
font_03_sfnt_off00013baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BAF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
font_04_sfnt_off000149b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B0 8388 bytes
SHA-256: 73dda171cc0ae14a9eb4b5e5a6ae0121afae816e2488861c5104d738e8e19707