Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 def11c9827d1d0c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-27 16:54:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 64b95cd206c742e65580cc265ab263ef SHA-1: c49451ded6ccdefb5a2144f302ad1a0fec24b88d SHA-256: def11c9827d1d0c1a7cd5584156fe2dfcfafd89a758de6e2e33b54ac5f7f4303
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO manipulation. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=5th+grade+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vafodagusun/hDjbphd/kifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munuteme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862418/xigomupuga-razax-lujunuza-nutuponowume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokutape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814024/18f14d54d1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xupebasolaw/Sk1gf9i/61650812992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodamewope/ijUdjae/fivovuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvotawek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134872633/6248824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutofegabosig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134725810/fdcbd25afd16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/losopodelim/jbhcRid/neberusilopovinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dufekifaral/40327634513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedbc21-cb93-402c-9ae2-3476589645d2.filesusr.com/ugd/f3ecbe_4284426f21fd40b6887e821c5683b542.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45bbad82-8d75-4e97-ae08-a098a758c8ab/68840315485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://63dbeab4-18c6-4677-a808-17cd77aec119.filesusr.com/ugd/963d80_c4f1d66bd99841839317a46443b930b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jasipefulaxiduj/20344003166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27bdbbbd-733e-49f0-8874-0b7b455fc0ac/30095401043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6559c260-1cb5-4370-b1d2-af67cdcbca95/67837207898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c59dfa1-fb26-4848-8a3b-64ed88a9008d/tamapateguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d38713d8-f9e0-49bf-8e72-3f46774ce551.filesusr.com/ugd/b3faf5_116317879bf24637a2b9367d15aa0ca4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f9e5ce6-5929-4391-ad5e-dd164fd30dde/best_dungeons_and_dragons_5e_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c8070bf9-ed42-4c5d-8eb8-ca35ee70f136.filesusr.com/ugd/d38238_e11b7adb2e3746048b74775b4bbb7398.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1355e0e2-89db-4ad8-b546-4626a5d8074b/oops_concepts_in_c_interview_questions_and_answers_for_experienced_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46410d06-096f-4f0f-8945-551c102c2949/depojumudafezitigerewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a37a3d5-a0bf-4e77-8ff5-6127fd08aefa.filesusr.com/ugd/6046c9_c9dbcd94f0534c05879e911ff3a1190d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8afdfbf3-cf7d-42c8-b321-65f6815338ab/pokepepavososi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d54d1b1-f516-46e0-93e7-9c94fdf58cc1/unlock_avaya_1408_phone.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_off0000f323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF323 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 0f9b25e4709e9e36452b528e0499941a96e5d294e3859b4e570178b42ac6b8a4
font_01_sfnt_off000105c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C1 10804 bytes
SHA-256: d230c82d7cf773d662c3dc5720690a464506bae01ba8fc614c0ece3b2f829827