Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd289773843f2718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-02-28 00:06:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7aab1bcac0e322c68289c62ef8b25ec8 SHA-1: 70de81442096783d7271a57d7bd85b3130a9d725 SHA-256: cd289773843f27181cb9ffb027717804aa078e003152e0f9810d061b9f0c26c4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary URL, 'https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+thread+husqvarna+emerald+116', appears to be a lure for search engine traffic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links indicate a high likelihood of redirecting users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=how+to+thread+husqvarna+emerald+116 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepovili/Obpjcgi/reapers_revenge_pa_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sigogaxeba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620414/fejiduve_foxexetezules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devudupaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880603/effd8bdb8931a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/purorenutuw/ohfqhhg/8790411267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jujipepovoduvu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017188/juvof-sakufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pananele/GOhhdji/6453620228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latafixewikokaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134687196/nisosiwobakevomafasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475997/normal_5fd91a32c98f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461766/normal_5fc9d7efa6918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forakisoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740641/f449c66b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapobirot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134888013/rutom-tuludagosa-tixugiwatubo-tomibezufoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bebabigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135977904/gedazimezodejig_dizagi_zetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482631/normal_60065c2d63328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buliduxefexefux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636978/viwukuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixazizaze/eiffYgj/lewufawajojibudukeviwofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vogaxuruxav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352923/detaralofijogafileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rupasofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892789/3b68517fc58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494891/normal_5ffab9462dce1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pobanuruwogijo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882751/5744832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demomejisalazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869482/9993467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000fb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB36 5512 bytes
SHA-256: df4612b5c9b0da60e8a81c36dcce8931509dc7006e9c82a5369dc01f3cab3d35
font_01_sfnt_off00010de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE0 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 9037df26a25d0317a31626dfd24a5d053b798cb9df06aca7c56db69fa763ef4d