Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9d90910f399a8ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-05-30 21:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2eb817a27999aa65778a1ac8dd353c22 SHA-1: 278049e031dbfeacd07cc53d0fa4c13b6bd98f1e SHA-256: d9d90910f399a8aec3f53a0c08b815323134a0aa6f03b6e61d00c634ffb8223e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous external URLs disguised as a nursing citation guide. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs point to disposable hosting services, suggesting an attempt to evade detection and distribute malicious content.

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=medical+surgical+nursing+10th+edition+apa+citation PDF link annotation
    • https://murikupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481598/9695914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413696/normal_5fe04b7b470de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424009/normal_6062d796387d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xasewaverafi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868265/karesamelojenes-vivus-rulofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374979/normal_5fe1596da48ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464527/normal_5fe882d9db46d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lulipexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135294167/mesasegilinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jipemovikeral.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012889/golotexo-jidopipojowaxis-nulotu-vukujatisaramez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4471475/normal_60b19f48a6bf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371808/normal_603ae76be624c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimapavidi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740410/weronogajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4384459/normal_60b03c7b4581e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzaloxamuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406684/220a5afb2224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gakififevorejep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872199/xatovupuvokupemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489853/normal_60250a8bb922e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofisuxix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016862/2744488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawixelufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317770/c9b4c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikamesezelili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134857079/b172646955c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusiwugebibod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134484471/jasewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1080f860-3808-4987-a68e-1dcc8e4bcdbc/remotidutuwaxixuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1760cd8-78da-436a-8bdb-6342b2cd72cc/73441347951.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE345 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 14d3915075319dee08927264b5339e896a005d029fb0733bf033a3529ea553bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A6 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 72f0dd9377b7f5fc6a99dd3013fc0f59be2ffa84d0bd80d783c49c7fd0ca8ca0
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176