Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc00889520d8c135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-03-17 00:58:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a164844343db4680f01f4a5e4652da58 SHA-1: 536df1b309d4f556dd10a2d24667863664c99901 SHA-256: dc00889520d8c13574b465176c5423345b3eb0113cc17fc3a592572eb9ca6e49
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm operation. One of the extracted URLs, https://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=2019+mustang+gt+auto+vs+manual, is particularly suspicious due to its structure and the presence of UTM parameters, often used in phishing or SEO spam campaigns. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link distribution strongly suggest a phishing or SEO manipulation attack.

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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=2019+mustang+gt+auto+vs+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sobekalob/ggPhf3M/legacy_of_dead_empire_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/libudezetuv/hhgiTFf/9425794213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472185/normal_6016fcae50a4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phulop.store/sifibitifelomofilinidoksly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471106/normal_603c6a34ce3d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netusikofigo.22web.org/free_contraction_worksheets_for_3rd_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lezebulodiw/Yhjgfjb/bupitonaforakeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/riwaxagi/jfhav6P/778572546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaptejvxz.fun/11059243571buvbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/neviragar/jjjaeh9/46302799471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robolab.one/duck_hunting_2020_bird_shooting_games_3ds7o7mv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380695/normal_6039a6615308b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9534cc33-30dc-483d-bed2-8d5691710d48.filesusr.com/ugd/3835dd_ff0c8792eee9492b87723b76907a606d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f6ce3cfb-f922-470c-9e0e-eaf724001b0e.filesusr.com/ugd/defcb2_9ce48e70a8534482907f23a29589f008.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ea1ff7f-05b3-43a2-9744-178351a05ed1.filesusr.com/ugd/01f9b9_1d41395a2217436899a474ea36e2185d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7aff118d-26f6-4d76-9bc9-1838009e7274.filesusr.com/ugd/f80014_338fe63095c14d5d96d7cba644e5a5ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gukamapi.rf.gd/what_is_an_heirship_affidavit_form_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xazomagojuwa.epizy.com/47860971486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a97be2a3-bfb5-42de-bba9-b145341b31aa.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2860_9fbaa0668c13471482d8130d1de7bb54.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://luwunepozu.epizy.com/casio_calculator_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vapelokalun.epizy.com/13994964747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aca56392-15ae-48e8-982c-fdf6c4ac0dc3.filesusr.com/ugd/00c070_6ae4656b478e40018f416971d32d4763.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_off000117f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F0 5356 bytes
SHA-256: d265a21a16dd03edd34e9cf4bf9d15c8b9478b10cfe7ebcb1fe2c6d157886aff
font_01_sfnt_off00012a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A22 11972 bytes
SHA-256: 54526e3b02d8545b0f12cb5665c62a4f969f3073b713f675e6567545a5e563dd