Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9197c5af33f9c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-04-10 22:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1d49505502400e3bb792c12dc9921f16 SHA-1: b24b304ceeb360117320ccd5ac93874957d34d3b SHA-256: a9197c5af33f9c11273df963e5f6097f252672febba0596440ba7fd47628176d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/strik?utm_term=2008+jeep+wrangler+sahara+towing+capacity PDF link annotation
    • https://rajilogibakew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326989/7bee55f558b37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxexamuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446800/matibuvi-filuxu-nagetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vurosegeje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651839/5773574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaxofivuleduj.medianewsonline.com/jezasutuwolutimaworoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojuxaga.mywebcommunity.org/29096583162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wikuxokogex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872144/sedidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patewowuxafopon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595548/1948929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busapibasin.mypressonline.com/97829393945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokeduvedip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885922/xudixefopafodigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajejib.medianewsonline.com/zitox.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48b093d0-c95d-48ae-9ab0-78962be1e641/1982622818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nimuwet/kilerewipazezimetagujoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fekazudabo/wavarelerotovoruromotimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8bbf528-de34-49ce-b11f-21618929d887/what_emotion_does_the_color_green_represent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6edd57c-aa21-404f-9a22-0979e27d2fbb/how_to_operate_sanyo_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xasejumav.onlinewebshop.net/xunibarulifujolikezubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosevud/zuzerepuwavetadaripa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d4e4b27-0402-4f41-8fbe-a104ba49b14f/34421171333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4812ba1a-31af-47d7-98fb-75fc31a765cc/what_are_5_dap_teaching_strategies.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE54 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 1e08b615fc65335e8aeaccc84455f78cb3fec7f1d57a78a407079af75412e2f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10172 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 841da55541b1c4156468df5d8e1aa3cee8c098d2b4667ed7c3be97e00c70b8ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001271f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176