Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c358edd3e6260788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-05-09 02:21:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9c58e8606ddb5e55ccaeecd47769ad47 SHA-1: c37876ac606fd775d41a3169fc2374c85c58f2fa SHA-256: c358edd3e626078889fd3315dfcfef513cc2ffe7b925c843440853ebde3b7a42
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=what+does+the+definition+of+done+means+in+agile PDF link annotation
    • https://pebizadovabunal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134711288/bigabepexe-waxelo-gapimifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derilezin.sportsontheweb.net/auxiliary_verbs_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tarigemozak.22web.org/what_the_number_3333_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seruvukajobal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134479042/3cfd2ae.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/eac750a6-8587-4201-84a1-97cfcbe14503/38111848923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27899977-4883-42be-8ccb-41316fc232a4/19584594858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1683da2-58b5-4abe-a427-ad323feee929/navy_seals_training_facility_san_diego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f26e6bca-ce10-4524-9610-ed5ef7c8d48b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac8c68_8d7e9a5f04fa4d3a80e3f010ddccd187.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gezetega/ajax_upload_file_without_formdata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buwosevax/wigalosenitofonebarasibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6323cc82-cf72-43ae-bc7a-f8d691a1d37e.filesusr.com/ugd/4f3578_7916f41b0e9a4b90892fcbcb24e01420.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66186f66-5705-4482-8346-8abf8205bf44/duzadijutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c3a7a64c-5591-430b-94d7-c2eadfdf3523.filesusr.com/ugd/966478_ffafb2ab60a94eb0905b950d83226c5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vupafigimewex.rf.gd/kachava_lagav_lande_bhagav_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2e6726a7-2e78-456a-9fa1-8bc85c3b20a6.filesusr.com/ugd/76e31d_4e0784553f30407ab23614a7639ea47c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce0494fb-0fc0-4970-8395-1692d0656f16/xovuwowaferun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nafaradevofipaf.myartsonline.com/62749272947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rizijubovapuk/patterns_for_college_writing_a_rhetorical_reader_and_guide_14th_edition_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kofepiropi.onlinewebshop.net/solidovubaxunitoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sefepugolupalax/how_to_fall_in_love_reddit.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_off0000ec1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1E 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 51f377d0aaebc693a3b4930093602870b1f701530a211a6da640d9935e6649cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDC 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 5705045d53baa0e577d21b0c947341560abe1d874a4ed8fdbe565e80e8a20b2a