Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8706e660816654f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-03-18 08:15:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ea06d3dd98a1e2e6220f95b594722bb2 SHA-1: b277b49da8222d61f41bd329aeda703884bc198f SHA-256: a8706e660816654f7577df745fc124f83754acff3015cf388ac5e8d76131b338
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting it functions as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=breezer+radar+pro+size+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377102/normal_5fced53da39ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476294/normal_60362b1ab6f21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413346/normal_5ff7e8ceb682f.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/993a2a16-4aac-4afd-9737-21db28acff8d/club_car_precedent_parts_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dikobepibelun/82315643742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5587bc0a-6ef2-440d-abe8-dfaaa2a1c89e/all_my_sons_moving_san_antonio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fac30f9c-1bc3-4ff6-ac40-7ced1d2a170b.filesusr.com/ugd/3b7182_36bf79f8c2eb452090c411106de8cab2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a91873a8-1f5b-4151-915d-af39eb211f25.filesusr.com/ugd/3f80ec_a2c6b5fb5a464e2986fa3837619efd78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e22e8d81-f41f-4d51-abb1-39b19d2d32bb.filesusr.com/ugd/96bf9d_61b4feeb0eea4ef48fca87be18c9a4a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://920f4c01-5fd6-4c40-8b27-b99972fecb60.filesusr.com/ugd/d63aaf_e7edc4f857114d47a9e1f48efc95553d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4df6185a-6279-47fe-a65c-8d2ef95a49e9/tedafexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4833c64-54c9-4c61-a064-319d8dbdcf27/how_much_does_old_navy_pay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nefomojuwet/nopivezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c7ecfb45-4de9-4174-91ae-4a3416e09b0d.filesusr.com/ugd/fc4f66_7e00945b3b114b718e876eb3ebee3b05.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dadupawo/definitions_of_public_relations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/516b4415-dd03-41f2-938b-d52b26413a5f/ar-15_fixed_stock_sling_mount.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wusone/filipino_alphabet_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e78817d-05c1-46e4-877e-bf7259acf94e/who_sells_taco_bell_mild_sauce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fasomusogapovi/advantages_and_disadvantages_of_capitalism_in_government.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd247c5c-5946-4147-92ca-027b8d336e9d/53134699708.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_off0000eebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBB 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 6da835501d6339b427579fb1d352bcb344b2cc6ff2bb3042a39b6610e32edf0a
font_01_sfnt_off0001007f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007F 11808 bytes
SHA-256: a4180a01ce9b980a6e6c60df57a7be79bbb33eb02ba073355bfc4ecbd05c957d