Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2fc4a279969cc10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-06 04:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cafa68cfa32810ec9a6d7131ad416d16 SHA-1: 1696abfbe984401906d37f48592fd5ef5b404029 SHA-256: d2fc4a279969cc10f25a3d6c513d396c0a075181b53c447e12178d8958b78990
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing and potentially a trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+the+significance+of+a+problem+statement+in+research+paper PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499651/normal_601d17af18fd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402956/normal_6009a4dadc48d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukuzemuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306557/5099297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365553/normal_60269a1ad502c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366400/normal_6052f8df48a94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisefumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134672277/jukonutizupizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366018/normal_5fd3d99224405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagipuzato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776724/kilubiza_gunoxepifumuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejamelaluboj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311679/572298019c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vurinilobato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/b25e19dc36cfb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasababafaraw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135336348/vogiwagusew-napusovegedib-jebitozodep-nojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405652/normal_602b3936dbf70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365619/normal_604044adc6a71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegetifadozapuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637062/pasifapajofunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426558/normal_5fd26ff879f62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469350/normal_5ff6250a729db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382414/normal_6025b25ecd850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://putesoborufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814126/7402251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420589/normal_5fd8b4ea821f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zatibuvox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738619/7906263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450640/normal_600a0677ec85c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kadikodol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747526/9bd2ffd443.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_off0000f121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF121 5580 bytes
SHA-256: f68f962ce172f1aa4ff7bc9db9d188b10234df4fb470be94741db6f7d7124447
font_01_sfnt_off00010406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10406 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 659c725e457fd8e1982a71c6218537b1784f9c48077f59d0d7077ec76faa1dbe