Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a822d892283a54df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-05-27 09:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: e0a405d7dfddf430da0889d920ee273d SHA-1: 32f9268a2e516199ad6c7ca85846f5ab33f4abe0 SHA-256: a822d892283a54df58653dcf31205b266ed311ba33bdf766038d30873fd97ccc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable platforms like Weebly, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a high number of distinct hosts and links designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369494/normal_5ff470f528dda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gomejewenikugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869664/3514416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jojobejuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815094/a604ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4527237/normal_60558cb5967a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373271/normal_5ff7c76d6dece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxufaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482874/belagubi-sazomorizex-refosew-mejebebomeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begakidiwadagav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397934/679d64e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siralukamowifi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407299/vuvawisizimuxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473056/normal_5fdc025b17456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408984/normal_6022be8cbd56b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibexijenoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680926/07b019171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411219/normal_5fca33bf7688f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://depopuxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893869/begiwipebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417313/normal_5fc9ff7d5c6b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468571/normal_60681de1666a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gebifafotuzuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324040/jenuvebubajebuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408595/normal_5fed698c1dd81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobiramiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403563/4367601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/kMuynZNWtA0/wb?keyword=mackie%20cr1604-vlz%2016-channel%20mic/line%20mixerPDF link annotation
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7f3cf85-ba6f-4c64-b54d-2b3c799ee2d2/ramazimamelupozamewowefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/939b561c-9e70-4cc5-9dcd-050dd7a6ac80/son_of_dathomir_1-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb4da04c-9989-466d-aea9-e1dcf49290df/porimipid.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_off0000fb53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB53 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 758cc4c1cafde52ce507f9386a1fceddc41f218ba760cf0bcab2a3717c6ee4ff
font_01_sfnt_off00010e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E72 11640 bytes
SHA-256: c9f3ecc993b408e7c4d08f08daa5f283be34343fb93d79c6dd3ffe4d8a837681