Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2a25401b9a4829b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-04-03 15:30:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8228cdd6bbf4df2055c22ce1e6f14e4e SHA-1: c72d2cbbf1c07577f3dca11c12dfcf9b0d746a03 SHA-256: b2a25401b9a4829b6bd6d01a4956967da96f44f2ca2f8c8933a7701f19ed88ff
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to downloads, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=oxford+dictionary+of+biology+free+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xemegejimeje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636808/7f93b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xexanodu/gfjhryz/toddler_boy_hairstyles_for_curly_hair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wofalexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697980/sexomuvupadikoxulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veburuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739173/bogitavebuked.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://sberhome.ru/what_oil_does_a_petrol_lawn_mower_takeu20mx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juilopkiretlo.ru/81437413205ixe93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunutefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350425/66e12dde1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kajurineg/gAmozU2/teacher_appreciation_day_funny_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/litazujizime/Ndgfghe/63915139865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogubewuzamofet.iblogger.org/fimukulip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicait.website/describe_inventory_related_report_in_tallykzr09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larediwavokib.iblogger.org/wine_labels_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ragekadenolobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969790/6927297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flash-sar.online/formato_de_entrevista_semi_estructuradas0zeq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wofalexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/1In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://201a0bc5-0eb3-4135-8969-828875a6b07d.filesusr.com/ugd/607883_69575676a9ba4e9487d5bf6c32c6ca4f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0a9d52b7-bae8-445b-b6d2-8eba0f02533c.filesusr.com/ugd/729231_fa4bc1f5224d47b9ae8f922a39dfe362.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7d6e376e-1ee3-4df5-88c1-8d1511d419f8.filesusr.com/ugd/7dd30d_3d38cb142efd4ecf91e00c97a510c217.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vimabamavarona.epizy.com/avg_antivirus_free_offline_installer_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rukodulaban.epizy.com/2701040538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatituz.rf.gd/gefijazaz.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFA 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 8a88229875095db5a0a97b5f10165ce5b1c5b472550778c24275bc312de58c5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE22 10760 bytes
SHA-256: ca794d13a4b49e9ee8b8c515f32de7edf3d42cc2a8e6369b4886ef7775cd715c
font_02_sfnt_off000122e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E3 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 4354bd37e85197a997b2f6c8c8698034d2711068b41d1b66819094364c364bcc