Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afad1c6fae05dd7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-03-31 10:39:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: ef79b487c4d87f79163db66c4a15faa8 SHA-1: 4d077ac03cf87876dbe45dc0aee33eef303e1ab2 SHA-256: afad1c6fae05dd7ee47c222b4d9c40287febeb9d6febd5c2347930ab477c1b35
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 domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious redirection or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=daily+calendar+2020+printable PDF link annotation
    • https://pogunokele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739789/bodudegigasamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadetebes.sportsontheweb.net/asana_pranayama_mudra_bandha_swami_satyananda_saraswati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetizeniwa.mypressonline.com/balance_board_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ronabamipiboti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598089/1703356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mexasazage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134513067/wofobaveber-xexaxarabukena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vegedusovo/bAat2ic/download_idle_airport_tycoon_tourism_empire_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radumudoxelis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235428/migasugobewe-vilemigefevofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berizezemimuto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695806/8225951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kivipemo/CFgdiND/wobokosomapodotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedaruk.scienceontheweb.net/ars_amatoria_traduzione.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowevopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872281/jijafakev_digojukudowulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadovadu.iblogger.org/predator_portable_generator_6500_peak_5500_running_watts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wobosiwax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607505/1726663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/mjfajeJ/samsung_level_app_for_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuluzagile/cljgjaj/dancing_neon_ball_rush_roadmap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://ziwivazud.onlinewebshop.net/24769519979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvepel.myartsonline.com/baixar_livro_biocentrismo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budunasetixap.epizy.com/executive_summary_of_a_research_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadarubumu.rf.gd/basics_of_communication_skills.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_off0000d165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD165 5404 bytes
SHA-256: ea79d2ca6b5978731dcd5c55a196fce972295413db8e6bb4bb51d428eb37eeab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D6 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 851fba0422a606435ffee129c8c347e596db3ce06fe4de8f8d35805d8700412f