Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac422851298d75fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-04-02 10:42:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: a0a7eacdde81972f0ce2f0f732c44540 SHA-1: ee17633b064bb32db6fa048c97f241f93e4c7132 SHA-256: ac422851298d75fd6f7b7ed3761817eba0dab02ee12b553379ec61c1182b1318
226 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 link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute or redirect to malicious content. The 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to decrypt a payload, a common tactic to bypass security gateways. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/wix?keyword=winrar+apk+android+4.1 PDF link annotation
    • http://jomikifu.medianewsonline.com/muxapenovevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naliputa.mywebcommunity.org/ischemic_heart_disease_introduction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopesozali.mypressonline.com/chacha_chaudhary_and_sabu_comics_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itclick.pro/the_housekeeper_and_the_professor_chapter_8_summarysy9hg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxshop21.site/naruto_shippuden_op_song_download4bm6z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledapenilodaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070651/favugenumi-rusevo-wixiripefepedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jepisafidezegun.scienceontheweb.net/jigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuzatew.medianewsonline.com/al_qaeda_s_organizational_structure_and_its_evolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itsnat.space/329309621393i0i7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najisemure.medianewsonline.com/70934156436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladufuvugekowek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108614/rasujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuzizalebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134772475/pizozopepenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nat-fru.space/28868435960rebnu.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/94f564c6-1387-423c-82e6-0e2bacab9f21/83945283757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/574be894-d7a6-43b1-87c4-40e8397b0e99/flowchart_creator_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bexukavibume.myartsonline.com/full_form_of_computer_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09e459ad-ac70-447a-bba5-60a8553eff04/36817600956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59bb4b3e-1191-4157-8a00-b99ea03520b4/how_to_calibrate_weighmax_scale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3fefcd54-c764-4177-bf08-3bf89e1904a0/microsoft_access_tutorial_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51f11bc1-fc50-4fae-b940-1ec6823672d9/50212771583.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_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 3e0a63cc0187c4560632556fc905dd721fe524192da2d82574c3452d1f7c88ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001016f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016F 11528 bytes
SHA-256: 018cfba004f1d8a9679507265949823d57ab0e2f2f05a14fdae900f51292c31b