Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab88af25c894b1cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.5 KB Created: 2021-03-29 03:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 2b98b6bb4559731cacff83b18bb3156c SHA-1: bb17904741baa71e8a2a75e794746a607734cc7d SHA-256: ab88af25c894b1cd6f93551e20091fedde945f956b5efa314fa31cedea181c0a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via the linked content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=diferencia+entre+absorcion+y+adsorcion+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414336/normal_600f14a6c5ff2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xilowodasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134742848/3528650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401691/normal_6012583412b8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokupotanija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135995636/ridiwugeguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemafaparad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681832/6d54d0be9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372740/normal_601d6daa52568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babaketejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304919/folelanaxezediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480149/normal_603089ff953e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipapira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610741/1308021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafumujem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498711/9280171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411696/normal_603e2aae05202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/971233b4-781c-4bc1-bc0c-4070ecaedb06/zojevexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8d59741e-369e-44be-b01e-8fbcb09d2d01.filesusr.com/ugd/7cefa9_ebc89de8692e45b2ab57e66dc3e06c64.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c1f973cf-d719-4acb-8f9e-cd83ae4fb94d.filesusr.com/ugd/057766_ef3f2936f7a542afbe942a8f1669bbb6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54711fa9-fe44-47b7-bcbb-eb69f3350a43/22792994734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/363caa00-a840-49b7-bb56-b9e64daa06ac/32724199781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0fe83ef2-ed6b-4f04-a52d-31fe3c58d8d1.filesusr.com/ugd/ade4e6_e94cb00991ef48c3aea8b4648f034e75.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/749dae1d-f7c6-4d45-ac1c-d197f441f858/the_tragedy_of_macbeth_act_1_reading_check_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3d9856c9-ddaf-40ef-ab37-14107f3d3ee7.filesusr.com/ugd/938106_4b20283158394534812609c1675782d2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/570e670a-49b2-41e0-8898-45d7cfc979ac/metal_gear_solid_2_substance_pc_gaming_wiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/434abee0-5923-4cd1-9d89-c5b7a75d58b0/harvard_resume_and_cover_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a4c341d-9af7-4f89-b48a-1b926ad6ced7.filesusr.com/ugd/dd6616_04e284b9d6f34cdb91507e470f650ecc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb8aa681-279a-49a2-b87c-74500224aa16/solving_systems_of_quadratic_inequalities_by_graphing_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2955470c-dbb1-46e4-b9df-555ef9cc2bd5/how_accurate_is_the_book_of_enoch.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18322 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 092399eaf227c154342198cc86672593f1dfd6088a020522095210b1639d115d
font_01_sfnt_off00019570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19570 15056 bytes
SHA-256: 597af95441c032141c8488a6457b7f87eb4cd0667b0755091d2f07c471b559eb
font_02_sfnt_off0001c535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C535 16136 bytes
SHA-256: e1fcad2821dfc352818d3a303c838d20ec17f7d5bb8191e100a18ab80f54854b