Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d19fbce72fdfea89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-05-04 00:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 95042211fd8cacba2351cedc7b61bccf SHA-1: 2fd2ce77b158e624aeed86eb34991efe13e42bea SHA-256: d19fbce72fdfea89142aa05ee08bb49a45f741cbdb8467c621b022ed55aeb18b
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, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of 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-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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=asus+gtx+970+turbo+specs PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/megopofe/ehc2ghr/16860483459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiwoxebu/2oidMhh/sling_drift_mod_apk_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daddytestit.xyz/64806465114knz2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batmbatm.ru/monopoly_cheaters_game_guideyds55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepaxumezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320712/norejunoxotagu-vukuf-wobanekoxijonu-xavopokunutoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://temeromaxuzi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745627/24e353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinolaseja/1jbhhNb/ancient_war_strategy_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://experiment.website/grammarway_1_indirocv8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/jeig6TE/creative_destruction_lab_atlanta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idclick.cash/81014095591ktntu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturaitalia.space/zuraxabemufuranopobepolcjbq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xavonepez/igejeiY/26259315625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vupapevixu/xIhaHyg/pizomekenesanubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gepumenujeme/ichdeib/strawberry_dessert_recipes_with_frozen_strawberries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jepipovi/uUjbOid/22089236060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jerivudofin/ZBidhdN/9850765242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gorofegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134462705/detisokamaz-goraj-fimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijemozedez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407135/dawilusa_mexopukubade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lomuper/best_software_sites_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bivanud/million_dollar_habits_brian_tracy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://354df738-7a8c-4643-bdcd-aa58f7c4bd0c.filesusr.com/ugd/69cf62_bdc7a2eaf1db468b883ace77794e2b40.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://64f1e6a9-4530-4009-9f9b-67b91dd69f79.filesusr.com/ugd/76b6de_d8473af0100a450bab7595761f4f3e6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4454cc88-256b-48ad-9013-c0414c72072d.filesusr.com/ugd/67e251_dadd427267d34dc18abb8f45e1f95dac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/safago/background_check_release_form_template.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF443 5436 bytes
SHA-256: b0c7032c5dc5fb84b3666a3f8513d5c372505ea2c80f73d3460246791115232d
font_01_sfnt_off000106d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D1 6500 bytes
SHA-256: 30130e6938256e4abd2149a29861fc6f98a59a5e186d6a9ab87dfb871230c8e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11822 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 127457c8bb67c411ed11843283fd97b5c738f8e1d0e44ebfbdf1ef57a21cd7a2