Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ae16e32ad30396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-03-19 23:59:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0805cfe164761b226aa604d15854b69a SHA-1: 2575b61bb67b46649bceac361c9e982e33f34b8f SHA-256: d9ae16e32ad303969cfe80775ac981e2328f550a4bb6f52812280bf788645ebf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily corrupted, suggests a lure related to game items, directing users to a link that likely leads to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall detection score strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://botokaw.ru/wix?keyword=disney+magic+kingdom+game+unlimited+gems PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bufutoje/bjidRjg/you_are_so_hopeless_romantic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biweekamnf.com/what_is_a_second_order_knowledge_questiont27bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mklhhhh.space/pumuxusatdy34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbqjkwklnd.xyz/michigan_child_support_percentagestp0n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/poxudanefisi/g5id4gh/c_f_full_form_export.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepositions.info/79428546349oqw7w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ropimipaf/dDjfDgf/20423903293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakakap.iblogger.org/animals_name_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f1c0478e-57b3-422a-b8eb-433964b677d2.filesusr.com/ugd/16c17d_60286566f1164695ad516ae6beee0885.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://599b09cd-7b6a-4758-94a3-08a08d316165.filesusr.com/ugd/628a76_9dc00765991d47bfac283b28ddf353d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mubadel.epizy.com/reporte_de_buro_de_credito_especial_gratuito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c6506652-bf5e-4f52-be36-03dbfaede22c.filesusr.com/ugd/f74919_62576ca56c4643e69e8992713fd682f8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rijowetunif.rf.gd/sujitoliwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vulofuza.epizy.com/tunnelbear_vpn_for_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d05b2b94-0af3-401c-a6ef-75d00d0b58ae.filesusr.com/ugd/3bca44_faa541b23fb44d1d9eadf83c435462c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fikexole.rf.gd/33471072638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a497570-3881-454f-aefc-229a18bbdf22.filesusr.com/ugd/83e24f_3aa73876dee549e99cd467027607a8ca.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF946 5328 bytes
SHA-256: ba645c698316657cc6ab861b2f57fe425164ae325b676569a428f62b77eb3279
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6C 11772 bytes
SHA-256: 86852e606270c964b1381a41c92656328b10468b094022214ef775248e2f442e