Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d059b16e32727c66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-03-16 05:28:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: a4dde343e08713656f8009b21d9e9c33 SHA-1: 6fe8cab10a9c3ac20f39e3ab469b16717358feaa SHA-256: d059b16e32727c667787de10db6a5cc66150bcfa9b223221437e2952ca58e982
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to other PDF documents. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content through these linked PDFs. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=roman+jewelry+rings PDF link annotation
    • http://mizebojusur.mypressonline.com/21811743485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larebalin.mypressonline.com/lala_ramswaroop_calendar_august_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463529/normal_5feed64e4648e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452839/normal_601b61a40f29f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujudesuxiropa.sportsontheweb.net/xunefuvusetarorib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452852/normal_6012c4c486aeb.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/8d8d7aa8-9c85-43f4-a668-a99685882f52/xekiwixitixebawapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://08202b68-adf4-4b7d-bb06-fcebe54c78b8.filesusr.com/ugd/76dd3d_26d087ebb0b2458d9c51316b1325b3df.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nukilaba.myartsonline.com/how_to_write_different_captions_on_multiple_photos_on_instagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2203da8-4034-475c-a980-a37079f2cd7f.filesusr.com/ugd/d29026_2b16500eb45e4decb2cd6d8d347832f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fejakixoweka/under_the_lights_abbi_glines_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/759661a5-3da7-4583-85ce-4237c801ebc3/55588093801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/forupokisip/birthday_invitation_maker_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d921648-f667-4f57-bc5d-2f3af53a46fd/mike_myers_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f1c4fc8-8395-45e9-808e-ffb7e81c742a/buy_safety_razor_blades_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b85afe12-25b9-4623-b277-68fe3c466f4d/singular_and_plural_nouns_ppt_for_grade_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8d684a1e-4078-49cd-b336-05adf09473b6.filesusr.com/ugd/2b25e8_d156d3b0df7b466ba32573491c4c4fe6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wibedubosateg/best_load_order_skyrim_xbox_one_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/277ab12d-9d3f-4437-8c81-a06983fef475/zoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xumakomowi/does_scansnap_ix500_have_twain_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b7c01875-5afb-40a6-9ab9-8e64bd2f8f38/76743099859.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_off0000f5a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A0 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 358cef9c703c833bf91766c28f5a4feb02d60889e050aaa09d5ccfeb4c8be3a5
font_01_sfnt_off0001079c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079C 11108 bytes
SHA-256: b0021c935411a3762f0e03b1c992967ef4ac3197be58ec5f69798f9a2da0bc93