Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afa17ac772fe2b4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-04-06 17:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 4acdad65b4896ac851f5767c107d3c70 SHA-1: c620deac362da10a6f3e79955e404407fb1cf192 SHA-256: afa17ac772fe2b4bc4b0085b9bdda68e47b2162471a56d35e1afc63c75d63899
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which are algorithmically generated and hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the malicious linking.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=carnatic+music+theory+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wabelurotetef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134693048/fudagajaxowere-jurof-dodupedadodasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svoylend.xyz/quarto_de_despejo_download_gratiqi0s8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelistens.xyz/bmw_e90_320d_workshop_manualaeaoi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vukufisoxe.iblogger.org/36402417821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garotilalu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739336/gumezufovolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trokot-shopnew.online/lovowikepijigokoniterurlemd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofoxanubojinud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740779/vefadelizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextauto02.ru/dmbok_free_downloadgaad2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovemecompletely.com/vamodatemezajoziduzatifomauuio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liziruji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380663/sejizikonoxa_dudetofor_zibokijiletuvo_wivigunelazoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxozafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483391/8618165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwawidojimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648839/7220581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenanasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384656/5761956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chisto-chisto52.ru/organisational_skills_interview_questions_and_answersvfqfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuximakid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739256/zagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gratoraama.website/killing_floor_2_ps4_co_op_split_screennq2v6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaduzoronogikex.22web.org/lancelot_fgo_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazobibulome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134775133/5539897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonasiwebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814782/5890652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b634734f-67aa-4edc-9b69-dcf7610e4690.filesusr.com/ugd/c86859_f32fb43242754d7aa77c5c14b4bad6ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://abe99a74-823b-4c5d-85d6-f8d8de52422f.filesusr.com/ugd/73cc63_465ea2b02ab44325ae34ead93166627a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://topasirerawo.rf.gd/junior_android_developer_salary_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d03ec42c-8b93-48d3-a61e-9aee396c0db4.filesusr.com/ugd/1e557c_a57f3b1043024b0e852ec728008d41c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tawaxinazaka.rf.gd/genero_didactico_y_subgeneros.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_off0000f964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF964 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 0d011fcc0546a83b8e8fa75c7b26a7d02771ba66ab2a6ffb313b6ef5477828bc
font_01_sfnt_off00010b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B83 11276 bytes
SHA-256: a8b2de016185646aa948da87749269f2d3fb00e14d5a2b24f6060751978c32a6