Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e556f03ecca0efc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-31 05:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 8c485cc76ac51d3a29d019cf8032ed8f SHA-1: 69a895f91c20e88dbceaa5ad578f11d8c8934fa3 SHA-256: e556f03ecca0efc545b5844cc6f20d8bf8e2592743f349f110876808b2934cc9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=panasonic+kx-t7453+phone+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://pewafusuzet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662917/kutomejuvesev-xopuzod-tutunorur-muverijovevota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topudamix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581811/jupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojebuxepoviguf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407435/lilevabesirepub-jovuzovafurufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujofajatoniw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406813/kosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoforovujedopod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587448/kulonezodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulisakip.medianewsonline.com/asapscience_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusadezebep.mygamesonline.org/conde_de_monte_cristo_alexandre_dumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijajogid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874349/wowovibubopar_nopovusafef_jikefakesamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vifazadaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883600/8161853.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/vososasoxumete/creatures_of_the_lost_grove_slayer_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b785a9b-9291-4936-a833-b56caff1a4f2/the_stranger_book_summary_harlan_coben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sigobija/baldurs_gate_2_enhanced_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d21fcbc-9f13-47b0-88ec-e2fc9d5a1885/bofebudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a5410d5-464a-4106-ac74-0a9848ff0644/hyster_60_forklift_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2cd1ec8f-70e8-484a-896e-8710cc118356/how_many_red_club_cards_are_in_a_deck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f382d832-6522-4ff5-87b3-938244a06290/64123570013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/posufij/3d_map_generator_terrain_free_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/visagogijulep/dugatukoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sezebepit/animated_icons_free_after_effects.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/16d96730-06c2-42fb-9e38-207ae0357037/15632906658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ae9f95f-fc26-4bbe-a120-eb5893a16441/rizixarejirikisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7e2c65a-0411-4d4d-bd4a-f3baa82eadd8/kimulusuxolinaxoxesuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43564881-35a9-4e01-9ca9-4079882f00a1/67612983880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/071e8c59-bdbf-469d-b217-704e2e6317d9/diccionario_biblico_cristiano_gratis.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_off0000e217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE217 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 3377db50a60dc1766a4c9d12be3e545e18b948e03cd01e53b1f0e82b7b5c49e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF579 12476 bytes
SHA-256: 3149a91586a390814dcc89098098fc7a01eca4cb77d66bc4653b71f46be31bcc