Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee8d23a6c3b82bb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-04-27 15:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 50f2771bcb084e1a1cab154a35404856 SHA-1: c8e30d732f19f3e16000198999f03630eb6a5f98 SHA-256: ee8d23a6c3b82bb1c9f01f7d24847ba434c43f7deee0a93012293c5f1ac5306b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous external links disguised as search results. The primary URL, 'https://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+tight+should+a+deck+belt+be', suggests a lure for SEO spam or potentially phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious or spam content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+tight+should+a+deck+belt+be PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366346/normal_606b56c7aff77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388620/normal_5ffddb9f6c981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446781/normal_5febe31188722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408701/normal_60600e8d15d16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369304/normal_605fa56f9452c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460944/normal_60500d61aecae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449177/normal_5fd99d8112298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404515/normal_600ce7e23123a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367632/normal_60179027b3fe7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lozomaneje.getenjoyment.net/free_self_esteem_worksheets_for_adults.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368748/normal_602f45a55c931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489257/normal_5fea272c0ed98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474977/normal_603e5df29f715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374852/normal_5ffa12db5c0f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421200/normal_604adbd16e3bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460043/normal_5ff964147e9eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387709/normal_5fed9513922d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narixuz.mypressonline.com/88470667720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newuwedeza.mypressonline.com/mavufura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365624/normal_5fcae4d115b60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379486/normal_605c59625156d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476578/normal_601fe0735b0fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cad90261-f038-4e8a-b384-2e0e37e6cb8c.filesusr.com/ugd/4c4e45_7e004e6860a34cf8adc5f73876d896a9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lojibovel.myartsonline.com/57090970811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogalibamadom.myartsonline.com/ihsa_basketball_rule_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4bd9ed84-c80b-4837-bb2f-b1353ebfd8aa.filesusr.com/ugd/5a1791_3a1c7e3f82b445b28d25ec5e1312a560.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f01e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01E 5364 bytes
SHA-256: a8c3440b74e14c34da30c5d3e9c08152215d8ef9dbe7fc8e92997b76ddeeef67
font_01_sfnt_off00010270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10270 10392 bytes
SHA-256: fa964ebb00a1255a63878eb636791c078c67f30ebd9ace9200f593be42325d37