Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8cced724c54d1c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 08:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8d990ec3369aa4112168619445455c71 SHA-1: 85e7f98d7cd17833d17d4c9015bcf51d7c098433 SHA-256: c8cced724c54d1c62a8b802cbaffd8d5571f9a3d4f13af65c806b40965786fb1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://resalured.ru/123?utm_term=anime+couple+wallpaper+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mimotulifoti/wAghDNZ/61574762840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxizanelanoruf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740612/wapidu-pipofodatevebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lozhobelir.space/2012_yfz_450_repair_manualabqa6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astrology-personal.online/xadikevilimadekigemoz3col.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontlegko.info/how_to_use_texas_instruments_calculators_ti-30x_iisdfgc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pulisamog/o5jegjU/dragon_quest_12_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siresikewutawin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739490/1814459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sixerusesebu/j8RH3g5/browser_video_downloader_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zukuxenopo/ighbjj5/pizinexeromipukelepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/verinomo/ggp0hie/48861988098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sozodumupof/gd6bhjh/34486197931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugomekedakore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302214/5323fe0c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupepapeziwib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135319604/9542120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sigidezok/BW9gjhg/pocket_league_story_2_best_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nipoxumafoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134717148/5735238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jibezilesu/igwHDje/51861307673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1xbet-football.fun/peak_secrets_from_the_new_science_of_expertise_kindlee9vz2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cb8582fb-ab29-4f13-bfd4-623ca244ab52.filesusr.com/ugd/d61b30_edec887d42b74c01b82b68dbd4e6df58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e05653fc-386e-4c8b-889d-738aee72c63e.filesusr.com/ugd/62421a_72c55ff7cc2c40d29216ed8866c4d5f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2a4065d7-883d-43e8-a524-7ce9aa4b4e88.filesusr.com/ugd/ccb1c6_83c3505cf89040928600009d0d2f9a2f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a98ae10-8c7e-48da-b83f-9bcbc644cfa3.filesusr.com/ugd/9a8764_a40a962dacc74a65940f115b10c42006.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://66c7139a-03c0-45fe-98d3-e817d1e01442.filesusr.com/ugd/de2db5_4c2647c053cd4091ae72b564a24c811d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4b523d79-2bc6-404f-8e52-0acae4d2cb03.filesusr.com/ugd/fe1b41_2a088e5f9cd84aadbf52c7f5a3113238.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4779f2f8-a33e-4327-9c78-21ee0bcf4620.filesusr.com/ugd/31bf02_c9fbfcf545b545b7ae6eca2512bfc66f.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_off0000e773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE773 5204 bytes
SHA-256: f2698732b1aeb2588ae04a14d5fe3cd74fbbb0d07f22276e6343d16cceb0e352
font_01_sfnt_off0000f929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF929 11540 bytes
SHA-256: 20390fc373484296a2352c39c9f6f78382b84611a84c303c9f982c148cc7693c