Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d26728d192c6fc8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-06-06 10:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: db350ddfb4588cbbcfc9d301febe1a70 SHA-1: fb359c3c65fa7eaaa2e2d12289908db8e6cb52c8 SHA-256: d26728d192c6fc8fa1a67dfeb18461b80205ab725f8bd46041312e94dd19f770
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. 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 0.9991

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://philabc.ru/pbw?utm_term=can+a+family+member+witness+a+trust+deed PDF link annotation
    • https://wivaralizufijol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483386/nikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamigifumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134443618/a83bef6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumerigowijegap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134771458/7979823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupewofitesog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134771191/2122401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazamafew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016738/jofipotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414851/normal_5ffa27843f0e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401694/normal_5fe3face751fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedidebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740692/3504443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gufulesem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134698375/dec814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolobatunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740420/kupuxididi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxilimibipemop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453056/mogitosikovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perelixaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881923/9754440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365613/normal_604f9ade8e62b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426545/normal_5fc5d8622fe61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zopixidasopotid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397955/vuvuje_vufaxada_sevixudilax_jujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutegonepot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016653/muteg_seboveminuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venireza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135959939/118782d89f0d.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/e6e2189c-1a1f-40d2-ad38-523ba638b116/genie_acsctg_type_1_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6558153-49b7-40fa-be26-28bb88f93412/48574350616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajisaparev.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144411747/dd_3.5_best_metamagic_feats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jopamedet.pbworks.com/f/xoxuxefiviraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ffa417e-95a4-4973-890b-3fe39e4e79a3/dutolorukoxotiviguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8dab3fd2-99ce-48fc-9448-6c5022f15685/gokejemijepaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7187a83d-6bb0-4c99-91ef-f0450c5c6401/21895855950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refarumiba.pbworks.com/f/what_words_begin_with_nus.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_off0000dfe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE4 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 942d8c6d0cf9bfcaac69f070c9cb266487d103bc9cb4280b593442ed4f6bba31
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DF 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 2c64630ed79b2f5c445c99961532732f5aece7bf5aa42fd5eeab46495873248b