Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dee5f1a418ccfc17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-05 15:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8e7b740edb0b2af7cf832338f2a18336 SHA-1: 5d632a856c56a4c85c9948bfe6a7ef6a3b344714 SHA-256: dee5f1a418ccfc1777bc2b32748d06b3b6d5aa51418a9bccc26a7c69b392b66e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=himalayan+university+bpt+syllabus+pdf', are likely used for phishing or SEO spam.

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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=himalayan+university+bpt+syllabus+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vosafezedivoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136095507/xemowigafaja_vexowakuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gabixeme/n7yyjb6/vintage_hot_wheels_real_riders_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimafivatoputir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134496040/tutodu-zexivad-nijigawejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwasigefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398444/ledikowesatesisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fipakebeb/awRjbic/tavuwipadozapatosiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuzewejobedogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482867/kirodulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokesekodabese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012443/todokosegipokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nupumusu/ficjdig/sofoxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445550/normal_6037cff1a57c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xasakeza/fijgfmf/19445418114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lenubire/icjcEDP/58792511380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382003/normal_6010eeb3115b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupisisewovafon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134500239/4e8de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sekamaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134590712/lotevimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466659/normal_6056703ddfebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vesagivara/0jdhjhc/49153099803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499317/normal_5fdad167b205a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wabajevebe/S2ihjbV/efootball_pes_2021_mobile_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389792/normal_5fd9b1acb2943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6c48e56-34ea-4ce7-875a-bcf58cbe3e1e/understanding_human_communication_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e4b6bc4-1acd-4fde-89f0-0c721f8b8a2d/survival_knife_with_compass_and_fire_starter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e05f723-98f5-45bc-91d7-cb47c5624435/befugi.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_off0000dfb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB6 5448 bytes
SHA-256: d02f888b43e3eb85f4446b2d10ac0c58f5e8fc018e809faa2b77c24d4236c5c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF228 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 2b57a533af2c1fbfaf4038a7f3d9d8cd5244ff1d54d47dc5c635769ee1011e5e