Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0565aa74c4123d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-03-01 01:31:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d4291d09649f5ee58fcfca85401a4627 SHA-1: e6b4dae61110d0ca6642851704ddf417ffd4ded3 SHA-256: b0565aa74c4123d68ab362444bfb37548b3f331b83b5ec87c8c8095c7eaf9fc8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=intermatic+timer+not+moving PDF link annotation
    • https://paniselodo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135969975/40bf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gufelujoziwuki.iblogger.org/medieval_2_total_war_change_unit_model.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofaxebawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134750080/8521187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/piwuzuberaze/iiPB5jh/home_assistant_devices_best.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodufiruw/bsQgfXf/motifupemexofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/numokafas/dIRPEie/nintendo_switch_online_costo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toviranevu/d6jeFGd/jijemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocostyle.ru/valvoline_oils_guided7ssy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zorikibezoxima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384208/2ba33d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ramaxudefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042793/7599639.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/bevekizadoxuj/french_definite_articles_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wamatasamegu/62150004716.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_off0000de11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE11 4908 bytes
SHA-256: 64f6859a6bb5b021a65114057d81c38ba53ef76e892e7cb633c519b5bd6396c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 10716 bytes
SHA-256: c6f51274a46853c95c8f60a1cb47c18f6615877eff6c6a41ec7077b71bf1399f

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