Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9ef1bb8aa105874…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-04-22 21:28:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fd56790c774b898a67b4f0dc99d85afc SHA-1: 21e8256ce10fac66a9dd2d52f5ae8e3f7a7af3ae SHA-256: a9ef1bb8aa1058742f9cfba8dfeaca40ebecfebedd19e4626ad0a722a7ec72bc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to book recommendations, likely to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=books+like+secret+life+of+walter+mitty PDF link annotation
    • https://xumizobizuzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688834/fea3aab3666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gasidonoda/MhhQpid/linens_and_hutch_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sabumijobude/jibVjgz/clock_game_for_kids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegadakupoxak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749069/9160907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanasido/gLieSic/ninja_smoothie_maker_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vexibalob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896466/pepabuwotega-suxorobenat-zowori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuxogafu/dilcVgS/vanilla_chocolate_strawberry_ice_cream_cone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mupalewefe/ehfifhg/pizatawimisomoxegejano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeretidaker.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595905/4211296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovikojux/N5jiUja/international_business_jobs_entry_level_salary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxowopiv/gigfrmj/tuxezetimemilulawovavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wekaradukuve/DzPjcmK/jowamizufekepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvotawek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134872633/2c242d7f9a26c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wujugojuse/W84Q9ja/tanefumigaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rajemaramiw/7hdrjcq/led_zeppelin_immigrant_song_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/begijufadi/44318496912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugumeb/85152125255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemunomipazikez/bangladesh_cricket_song_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f993087-45f6-41f4-96e5-9dcaca18fb91.filesusr.com/ugd/9a92dd_253210b70f5c45328eb36ca44c4b7c34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cc968bdf-8a18-4a65-a72d-893c706ef441.filesusr.com/ugd/bae363_57b39825864744329c5b9675d75a5d2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://de74b992-0de1-402f-a2cc-438209b178b2.filesusr.com/ugd/2693ef_1320b894200040a1b91f6fa736ae6ef2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zumomasugipeno/statistics_in_corpus_linguistics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf23b77b-49a9-4bef-a898-a03cfb94aefa.filesusr.com/ugd/134172_f0f64860171f439694da1d969583100a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowesitobuga/9431483840.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_off0000f48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48B 5336 bytes
SHA-256: bff4bb90aba09c8d0c7b7cbb8dd15b1fa2eb09cc3ea6ecfe9bccffaaa9d83e31
font_01_sfnt_off000106bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BC 11612 bytes
SHA-256: 470b440f5ceb1086e10906ff6cb8c227571d2d51dab9663e3b6f7fdd7e853079