Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0407cabc6f01e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-03-20 09:03:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 75d74b3857f964924dcb9cf768631410 SHA-1: d9d7c434a9d4cc855fd484f7e7bcb600999e1580 SHA-256: af0407cabc6f01e71c99fdbd1567bdfd2d808b744d9534bc643f3258063422d5
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of malicious redirection or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=matematicas+financieras+pdf+vidaurri
    • https://xovuwegu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666696/2136395.pdf
    • https://bekodezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856725/776438.pdf
    • https://sobomevoza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739746/pavezibizuxub.pdf
    • https://zinawadasug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134312837/6768448.pdf
    • https://kizinuraximi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446503/tirozofa.pdf
    • https://wexisuteki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616275/8122608.pdf
    • https://pujapuvefebawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581836/juxikelez.pdf
    • https://kezodedekupamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134605888/70bf89b701f.pdf
    • https://mutoxikaxinabab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886861/6409582.pdf
    • https://semanipiji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312460/muzitiloveviboro.pdf
    • http://nutosuvitiraj.scienceontheweb.net/wd_my_cloud_desktop_software_mac.pdf
    • http://rowomonug.mywebcommunity.org/titan_440_paint_sprayer.pdf
    • https://jedifugidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382595/sajegikixe-lakixudedoz.pdf
    • https://mibirewisurux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135313447/90903b2cd50b8.pdf
    • https://revevapeseguv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387876/9341e9fa7.pdf
    • https://rijozixofufake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509282/7516fc5567.pdf
    • http://zivemigidefis.mypressonline.com/are_simple_molecules_soluble_in_water.pdf
    • https://dawikuwavuvuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866752/bapipewusew.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://sikejilewiz.epizy.com/utilitech_indoor_digital_2_outlet_timer_manual.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pusori/battlefield_4_save_games.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sisaxu/batman_logo_pixel_art_template.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mipizaju/dogemawupikapono.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pevuwarobuvowa/amman_tamil_full_movie_1995.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sigobija/xitesafejexadoloj.pdf
    • http://peworesafasar.epizy.com/zufigigitexikinumijusu.pdf
    • http://lufevexos.atwebpages.com/85154560575.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e831.bin
c78b9682ce4309d18aaa639709e7c3e682da38ee80ffdc7bf5f1705405ebaa59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE831 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa53.bin
ec47ee32150060fd27737fa7782a069a5408d5a12d6e0116ba7dec433b4aaea3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA53 10888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011e09.bin
74c25351ceab73455d1891ea470fad3788f7d91d7dd2aa15ed54b0feca07d747
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E09 16060 bytes