Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9948e26a058fd85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-03-15 17:35:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4e2892777fe315aad0eca810c46aff5e SHA-1: b0733fe6c5bb3b62f293f8510fb14edd6e9d0a65 SHA-256: e9948e26a058fd856ca2cd3a573cf3ce1ef71fd77a5c1657b06f606508510800
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm, with the primary URL suggesting a lure related to educational content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious 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://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=algebraic+manipulation+worksheet+gcse PDF link annotation
    • https://fopalese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349797/zowixixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabekebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135990513/5a274f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-vezde.ru/43675581547lxvg8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafale.store/50818082886l9bnd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allerop.xyz/51688743308o3e09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikubasixuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738960/9146801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalokawagubur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398574/zezelu-dinozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kufudazasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626120/zejiwu-sasemojave-mexesijamedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcjd.com/how_to_use_autocad_mepvp3cz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-slings.ru/wixoridiee3ht.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zufuleruzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637307/c44fde25cf51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eslivdrug.space/trinomio_cuadrado_perfecto_ejercicios_resueltoszeg4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixit.info/pre_weightlifting_warm_up78n9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamlikjorettoop.ru/sixijigepozexn8ge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_0631430a55f741c98019a039782f0a6f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tobito/defutosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6363ce23-9394-4102-a476-7be320345719.filesusr.com/ugd/7c41c1_987a0da0b2e243ada0967fb77b14e743.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44034db3-6cdd-4729-adf3-7ccd6afcf354.filesusr.com/ugd/9fe9cc_4974bc3b2c4e4c70b7d3a444914ceaaa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixedujegibex/3768701545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2fc43c4-60ab-4dc1-a1c8-84833fda4e2a.filesusr.com/ugd/37321e_d44fc2aa21f3405a86408792010fbf74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dafumuxitupav/hp_probook_6560b_manual.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_off0000d0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E5 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 24f3ffd09f80d8e3618549764883792c7455999ee41d0047d21e4a9ddfb61f14
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F5 10848 bytes
SHA-256: f5a837ae9ae389565d9700a7b2fb1ff25e5bef85f2a9eb10a90f09dca31671a4