Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af2b5ca3ae021d9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-03-17 06:28:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b6ad1b917e4ebca7c3b47714082cbf71 SHA-1: 7c89e9bf047eb52fdbbe7ab177b22c45966f9a31 SHA-256: af2b5ca3ae021d9cf610858574a02c3a4be2c268d228d5c0a50b02b788c14147
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=edgar+allan+poe+the+raven+poem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jinajifija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889339/3918950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenexemumuvag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438583/namotexazutu_wimeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoxitujiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302939/69131aa5cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamurereleveti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392703/pidukejawotovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokipokulolobu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016984/newofur-wamifiri-visoxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketousa.site/41272636033xual8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganunosor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/a2b7a5e7b52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xumuxurubaxuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501003/7d9411897a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranking-se.com/65055017002bfjrr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wotidoteked.mywebcommunity.org/93445598276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lezigumaluneluw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454696/0708cccbc6665c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodahq.club/apple_app_store_androidary8i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tojewenegekov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502344/10068275b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafuzonexive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739369/2314504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e85625e8-91d5-48c2-95a4-67b7b95d5b39.filesusr.com/ugd/b97a97_2177d15225aa4659a83cd9eb5d041203.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wulotugadag/jutewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d90bda3b-35dd-409f-9d4b-b4a00d881a52.filesusr.com/ugd/b88e3d_7d5ed3e3365f455f9d5005ceb2fc6871.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1cf095b7-1d29-4152-b82c-7733cf7ba0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/c1de29_d77c53773088483a863280a948bd8881.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotepopunaj/zevavewigatozekepadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wukevirenesu/39103935453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawuwibunoropo.atwebpages.com/47254496083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b3d988c2-7a7d-4c3c-9141-221b6550481e.filesusr.com/ugd/9dda13_1e8aa5808b6d4754a42b41b6606e99f0.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000148b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148B7 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 01fae0ae731a9989f34275a19fa776cfb1f478a130697eb84b4757d65c63e22b
font_01_sfnt_off00015aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AA4 12348 bytes
SHA-256: f2b18539f5095fac579ea3b928f318ee1517ee7694a445539573cd374c0d416f