Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be533837269fc824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-05-31 05:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 168e2d898be4c14eb920a9e19c5f8595 SHA-1: 0b2d06f4a00cf05df2b1e181d77b512cc8c080ef SHA-256: be533837269fc824844255f96bed9a3699d64dc694096b245e4cf89f4e009891
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm, with a primary malicious URL pointing to a suspicious domain. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://xezojetit.ru/123?utm_term=vintage+floral+frame+templates PDF link annotation
    • https://mawosamaretezij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134860838/fbc219ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipitajopidegol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453448/1504307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365608/normal_5ffebf3b83fab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380384/normal_5ff71b01991e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470226/normal_5fe8eadf0eab1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://womominajarizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392323/8466057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepagefifumowa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681901/vezupotufuse-wupuwaramegepe-pixuwi-dalolopugapetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450878/normal_60437cc82ae3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodefakuwutepez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341390/fudarojalisolav-mitogepakofezu-sokevok-tojodagodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448733/normal_5fec2f08ee827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414336/normal_603d55b0c07b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375528/normal_60207b8274eb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369503/normal_602a11227738e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419654/normal_5fcb387856e22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386081/normal_5fd63d7a7b24d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383572/normal_603625f364197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377120/normal_6016024b946fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4470980/normal_60b1d6dad951a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b68a3a28-161b-4c94-a74b-3e80a05836a8/wixafalelirasetofonereto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd0a72f7-0d6e-448f-9ec5-973a62eca661/how_to_block_punches_street_fight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/762a23b2-9276-433d-a3b5-d6e961c8fd34/the_boy_in_the_striped_pajamas_novel_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/819dbaf2-643f-4277-a970-1ac4c12717dd/mymathlab_free_access_code_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/28b6c139-39b9-4d95-8857-6e21df8e6217/86026739188.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_off0000eed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED3 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 3094a1754c13f83e998f1fedf42476b03de5dd4c5ae11504f6a65a0d48b143f8
font_01_sfnt_off0001006b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 0781ec5372e9ac120f4f1f2e292b600018762f9b987d05a2a6801d766a15bd7b