Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f378d3f1f04e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-02-23 13:43:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d65b68f1a383bed2d08186719ecc44d8 SHA-1: ce2d7f214f54ad3c9b9584b3c271ff4034d71bcb SHA-256: b5f378d3f1f04e8cec8170d12007d91a511862250e7ed99c9cbd15716c5d11da
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=war+is+a+force+that+gives+us+meaning+summary PDF link annotation
    • http://toselarasomax.iblogger.org/hubspot_inbound_marketing_answers_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bovuzujavus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326818/8509698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duxegebipuvakij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095857/vuxepipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogupogadagome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398605/9c4108dfa66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunajogozezulom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135385825/482582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikikugawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326377/6678818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368976/normal_601066bd6df92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418993/normal_60069b13bcdca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojibabebane.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682208/4235880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411700/normal_601e49907222f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368485/normal_5ff0100314e35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogigeto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665346/jomejetimili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470535/normal_5fd70a908eab6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxujudafetofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712376/ruworot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fikejibin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134331262/9814717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://witigegewujal.rf.gd/seed_of_chucky_movie_free.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_off0000e2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E6 5440 bytes
SHA-256: f5c40ac90c75954d5d46be51eba63054edd32bd37990d6567a57e02a424ef3f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF557 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 80fad76a3dfa12541ca9668e40d7499ab2cfc16ea9fc8e28dafa3b25d2c9f7e0