Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddee5609c95b3d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-04-05 07:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9028faf0ae03855c89ef3213f17154a4 SHA-1: e48ff299868557d0342e1bd17caaedfec4c7730b SHA-256: ddee5609c95b3d1e10bab65690fbaa065df4a2c42ca8d2937d4664282dc9f74b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to 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 embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=libros+de+gramatica+en+ingles+para+principiantes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427504/normal_604acac671eeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pasovevutuvi/eieoqz3/fagizefusedewemupufunuret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafalokixibam.iblogger.org/34812745375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/gchdjaG/lolegafofapolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/navotezive/cgifJge/38927333115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nezuxada/hqQ6igE/stack_fall_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370280/normal_604ed91c2b4f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500669/normal_5fe3a99f866e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepovili/htYjh5X/instagram_captions_for_girls.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/navimoxa/ibihhc0/how_to_solve_hoop_stack_level_110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://ziwuxokivob.rf.gd/41074471127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizitifowubux/emulator_game_ps2_di_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fusidejebi/mofenotujabuxomekivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://081e7fb2-604d-424b-9b75-a58d54a71a44.filesusr.com/ugd/abd6ea_9b49368c3d294d3c9cfe8aab28d1b97d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zarusegibitumet/sezogurume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuwipipulu.epizy.com/sowagutuvene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mewexudidis.epizy.com/51976649410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tojazudibumogab/xorefuwuxorojurixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0e75ab8e-f6a1-4360-bef2-1d94e06fde4e.filesusr.com/ugd/c0518c_2668307533414a5ab4dada5dea817f5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuduwonifa/how_to_find_magnitude_and_direction_of_resultant_force.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a11eff3-0c7a-45dd-bb89-060d4d4d2060.filesusr.com/ugd/72216b_e579428058ef469780b9701c4ea82671.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wabamuvakotobu.epizy.com/coefficient_of_variation_example_problems.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_off00011d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D04 5556 bytes
SHA-256: a4fcedd88d55cc6cfdbf28aee44a24e7742e50ab2b32def7b55672cf11547df5
font_01_sfnt_off00012fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD7 12184 bytes
SHA-256: cd1196da7bc17e594ea59b0ba0ab9bbca7a46ab968c2a9dcf68d847c5a3c55d0