Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af90c466a4ae8f9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-04-03 18:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7f621239e5482f94bd3cc8a78b16f560 SHA-1: 8028cfcf20723a241c1b6a0b0b3b553dc201bc45 SHA-256: af90c466a4ae8f9adf286d7b3507da113b9617e7ff69022605a531e69e64ba80
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=data+analysis+using+sql+and+excel+pdf+download', is likely part of this scheme to drive traffic or host malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=data+analysis+using+sql+and+excel+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://weralafopibobal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338927/lewilam-zifejareg-liside-kosabipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexudusuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740550/141612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vofirojaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637635/07041ab12e09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukranews.icu/fodunnylcj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zipubezexupoka.mywebcommunity.org/uso_de_antiacidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dupetodim/XihZMig/tenacious_d_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufodeku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586195/7433556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://help-bluebadgecenter.com/873329609935dzu5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestsaleshopin.xyz/16803349037va578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doweryklkq.space/91818907044ehhv4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pigokujedaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/8e5427b98f23faf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sizegoduxuxa.mygamesonline.org/26025474260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivagirususu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350390/6437181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tozijizubu/jjhjifD/numbers_1_to_20_in_words_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losarofimet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384333/xekesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dudugetogi/f2ib9hh/pibalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosuvixixe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969854/pijujawize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazanuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683097/fugomumuk-dimejekovuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rigivopamakor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869382/vanibaf-vimawet-sitexesudexepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vebogotexaf/fekofutofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penale/mawuxidugofofijesetinube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tokit/pinitotexi.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_off0000f957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF957 5616 bytes
SHA-256: cc585ec49fc4b84912cb1b02c91c254d12e3d78576f8f272c0dd1d85357de48f
font_01_sfnt_off00010cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAE 11424 bytes
SHA-256: fae7e98aa532fae1e994b26a6b96d12d92bbdbf967128254b82c00b57367b3b2