Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab4a1e365eb5ed71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-02-20 12:23:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f83a2f825a563622f17a7f45c4c5b7df SHA-1: 1fb3ff1a1621aa33cd0987e3812be3180b470cb0 SHA-256: ab4a1e365eb5ed719894f939141b15460551aa1f53bddc3fcdf924da4ef3da9f
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 domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=que+es+una+composici%25C3%25B3n+en+arte+visual PDF link annotation
    • http://blockingscenery.com/ios11_locker__ios_lock_screen_apkhrbq0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisinshq.pro/894195255161rxze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426819/normal_5fcd2634efb69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369161/normal_5fd1beea0c198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivifetanesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347176/1630eb5cf7a386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374847/normal_600b8c75d6f6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475216/normal_5fd2cfc0a213b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scotiaenlineape-personas.com/sample_projected_balance_sheet_business_planivyx3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454990/normal_60090d33737c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagirarivevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384609/jozatajekefowe-zetad-kutelazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gafisasiwu/VieWgf2/revuwunoxewomanulere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464870/normal_5fe2a2b0e8398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4458614/normal_5fee445d24ecf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lumovomudin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704265/342608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vutakajar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896426/bifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bapisolel/cpjghfC/bounce_back_loan_fraud_sentence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459791/normal_5ff9abdce3aa1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495684/normal_5fda36f2ddcea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383449/normal_6026fbaf6172a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/losegiro/iijrghy/nitotonowovodaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fujesepulo/iVmzcct/radiant_church_kc_leawood_ks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393904/normal_5fdea43bc17da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizionsmc.net/pak_study_12_class_notes_in_urdu8f728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C5 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 9b5fd0c10e7986f93cbfcfd57ae764191a6db3b9b03ce4ec64951ea7497e30da
font_01_sfnt_off0001039a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039A 11708 bytes
SHA-256: 10f41915694a70e0e34ddd6edbe2ebf9ef90ea7e951c1a9979d418b8668989ed