Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b22eafab531a7c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-03-12 09:17:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ac0fb97c60c244d5d770be1f99d7c36f SHA-1: b561b5db9d40125525216fce5380797137176967 SHA-256: b22eafab531a7c556898b0027c1b88deb12339df1f375f704ab81c03bcb1881c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=beethoven+piano+sonata+op+16 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/magatile/fhgibgi/hungry_shark_world_megalodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usesucre.pro/2714232433047o9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ru-order-687646765445.art/66535766948kxbi7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kivasemav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680863/35f4173f77c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashcamtopbest.com/is_chemistry_useful_for_physicsib1nb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kidatufo/hamjgjd/siwuzafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gatuwaven/bM6MhiS/fairy_party_ideas_4_year_old.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pipenibeteza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134508730/96d2556228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabupipimefife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874594/kotojir_vokojegifu_lazim_jorowelepuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suxepemup/Qjbf3jh/83575062779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvirafiwak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307718/6351215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vefusujix/BhjObpw/evolution_of_species_2_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newowuwaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634034/jaxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiboxul.iblogger.org/gidenetirunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gizapofosiwi.epizy.com/vuwukimupavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d52aed46-be45-4f9b-8106-cf6fc7ee66c0.filesusr.com/ugd/b148e5_2146407203e04d1dafbfee5171fecb3c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a7176590-a44a-43b4-8b25-1171fb6190ac.filesusr.com/ugd/e6ccb8_18f20ec714754c7183915405b4d2676b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec8c99fd-5413-4e38-b6a0-2ccbba71fc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/de02f3_acb99155cc944d6e9254e0158f639994.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3a934eb-9722-496d-97d5-fb67a7e0693b/llm_in_european_and_international_business_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29fb7434-2959-49f4-a641-4791d4e51c74/nissan_sentra_n16_workshop_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85c8cb5d-3695-42d1-8f9a-776f32b86ae7/what_are_common_french_phrases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c0b8f06b-4e98-4d3d-89ef-2f08caba629a.filesusr.com/ugd/0c8cc8_01e7feff33334ce4b09786a117cb0220.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9eaa565e-fb97-40b4-b096-d6760803f699.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_1b76f7270d1a429ab3092a58600fdcfa.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_off0000d302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD302 5092 bytes
SHA-256: a59fabdd87d7126ad340f0b8a6fac149849475511138036d29b16ac3a92dcff1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 16dc3a31bced7200b3dbcf051ecc704856b36358d6412708f502f3a72f62209d