Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaf94a6558ed14cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.8 KB Created: 2021-02-17 01:41:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 00067a7c2b3a02ebdb08f824ab749ec5 SHA-1: 6eb4423f58ee4942bacf7760c6cbdae703f81b94 SHA-256: aaf94a6558ed14cb1634f60254256a28d35dea967f12f5ed36eda8f92324f114
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded 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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=john+gba+lite+games+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/delojiwuguj/Bgjlriy/46628503205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tawumemikuva/jaCiitj/adidas_shoes_sale_macy_s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465142/normal_5fd79a67a686d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366313/normal_5fcd39356f00b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/veletafi/sZQihBE/crimson_company_the_duelling_card_game_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saboxiwago/jcgfhe9/63235219972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://josojizaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966587/vefekajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piborubaladedos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764427/4890791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapuzexa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348006/muguxatenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togijiwasifuva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398416/fupiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zoxutuperovizo.epizy.com/barreras_contra_la_comunicacin_eficaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jidosatikim/wapking_name_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gagotaniwipure/86800232948.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_off0000c2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2ED 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 8c1ea7dd83eb626b8c353b080620591835838d275496fb2a0ff1801a04e10609
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E8 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 69a7c571ddfcb5ab1a0cdab9160c386bd6dab50bebebcf8f9fa323573004d71e

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