Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5f1acb1e9c2e428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-03-11 05:40:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: fdfa074d97bf98486cc1491df5a10d19 SHA-1: dae00239f870a8584be24811972625db30dfa3b3 SHA-256: e5f1acb1e9c2e428a776c6d7bf862fb0f07289f2650a2e1cbf1eceef7714f974
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt, as suggested by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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://lozipotod.ru/123?utm_term=astrology+answers+reviews+adrian PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470687/normal_5ffe9ba05f7a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xisagoruno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135332800/2365151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/banuluwopote/iihgwgd/century_21_closing_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuvisisitinu/ibhNcig/23222894288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370054/normal_60490ec676117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pazarufawituxib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000032/e07ec8d94ee00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477921/normal_5fe6535fa1b92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/serodozire/kxWjfjk/qs_world_university_rankings_2020_aerospace_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pasededi/ibhhIgg/paintology_draw_paint_socialized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417986/normal_5fea3b43b66bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nudogada/igjciis/initial_drift_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446400/normal_5ff7b8cbe0cb1.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://s3.amazonaws.com/viwoxuz/what_is_the_knowledge_of_god.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cf2acc4-d143-4013-a78d-f21de0873c4f.filesusr.com/ugd/e4636f_087c7cee9d244481b061555cfab8334c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/remavuj/6429336783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sulasatevirexo/nesco_4-tray_food_dehydrator_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nitajosasa/gatudawuxirurixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wajufifenoxuj/easy_similar_triangles_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://41c240d9-b4af-4f88-8fa4-2a41cce3a287.filesusr.com/ugd/01bc73_03f1ee93bfff47b0ae7213bb7b0495e1.pdf?index=trueIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C11 5024 bytes
SHA-256: d2a03c85c70f0cf7f2aa3e4ac8c8f5a199e28b04ea6f22db967ad8350c8cc773
font_01_sfnt_off00012d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D49 11516 bytes
SHA-256: a16791df1e39ebd92269de130986240d24a47300176d783ca42a0b9d8d60ba1d
font_02_sfnt_off00015485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15485 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378