Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e46ae0538e4288f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 02:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 91a7a5c89a8b501fa6860a2e8ab599b4 SHA-1: e1d9b2b414cc35dd6853dd08300d2145cb774a65 SHA-256: e46ae0538e4288f89b6606d73bc13911a7e8db93c56089ebec67eac40240c0e1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various disposable domains, suggesting a tactic for SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pixomot.ru/pbw?utm_term=placement+test+a1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://navowilupaxit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381067/denojego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winomumamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070375/paxaduro_sukuwobipefibu_wopabujinur_juvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402932/normal_5fc8408e8d0c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387428/normal_5fe8a5c12d61d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375209/normal_60388223b7eeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366036/normal_5fe673a8ad428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466140/normal_5fd2bfab202dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375196/normal_5fef7d7760633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386591/normal_5ffb8773793f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://furonutada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347150/kosedereravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salobejutar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589592/f8252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijaxerunoseme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306079/4ffe51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vosuliliwux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713435/37e3591e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407724/normal_60203189e8c11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451757/normal_5ffaa8f78d5fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368506/normal_6069474ad6766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449992/normal_60434e78cf9b7.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/d7e75cc7-f30b-454e-8336-f4f61f329f7a/piwitebekebaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6cfe34b-8e8b-4880-9e71-188846e7ac53/pefazufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d49e8949-2b87-4e7e-9256-6896b2054299/washing_machine_and_dryer_repair_services_near_me.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000129d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D4 23520 bytes
SHA-256: 568a770779e43afb98345a9a566464566eb0b631b530773282df8f388f72c8ef
font_01_sfnt_off00017407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17407 4888 bytes
SHA-256: ab603116a800410465036e5db21bfb058ea0a660720eeb4747df70c085e934b5
font_02_sfnt_off00018494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18494 15068 bytes
SHA-256: 449719a45c5968e352c419e823f2359043818b820ed06e652d1e639ca595c6b1
font_03_sfnt_off0001b2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B2C1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2