Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab7db906476069b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-03-31 23:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 088ec1e4059b88301498f7b36c28f232 SHA-1: 42bf403c22523f5b694589ed448de35f7723ca31 SHA-256: aab7db906476069b184970ada61f2087d3b3429e24bc03d82693b3a94d8b4d7c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The embedded document body text, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to book searches, aligning with the link farm's apparent purpose. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous external URLs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=livro+fundamentos+da+genetica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ginuwedisifixel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744372/zesidamiwiwasuv_bevemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426407/normal_5fd9926f1cc80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388274/normal_6032fafa30384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476569/normal_5ffc1b9b3809d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duxalobojot.22web.org/43307831219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375210/normal_6057cc1ace8db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tigimurudel.22web.org/sutoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378381/normal_5ff363f49ad3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolabuxovitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305824/padezevosureviwagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494452/normal_603d03543d49d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zawasofolebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902788/2419337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489607/normal_5fc77019d89e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385437/normal_604fad35686fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460466/normal_5fe42a11da297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379034/normal_6009e4849421e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joguxakiwemov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707067/3728689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wibagubid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373733/9243638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibanelamuvudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969844/6d691d20fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://givikejiba.epizy.com/what_is_acid_reflux_in_babies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolavewavesuj.epizy.com/delugodirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuriruzuminomu.epizy.com/bard_of_blood_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xavitemis.rf.gd/83660771475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komujawabajufob.rf.gd/pigavakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopasewawimugu.epizy.com/amlodipine_norvasc_davis_drug_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tedejokalegiruj.epizy.com/free_movies_online_hd_forever_apk.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_off0000e22f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22F 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 68f7b5843938c534b496dd08ece5fe9b640968b26ca48db4d433b2df90458b72
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B5 12804 bytes
SHA-256: ae2dfddce5665a144c0186b4199f8cf92753784d4539bd59d22ca70e13e5af6e