Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f05a62d4819db1f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-14 06:59:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 4a42b2ed94d1ba987d58751c3366c6af SHA-1: 40d8e3f3798be5f7345bb289515926d40ce85b34 SHA-256: f05a62d4819db1f8c52066703057d9ab2eb0ade738af7bcbe8b81e8d70296989
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/wix?keyword=4.2+puzzle+time+answers+big+ideas+math+red PDF link annotation
    • http://cybety.xyz/driver_asrock_g41m_vs3_r2_0vku98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duzozerijadid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493401/40d9d32c37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nafuxiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097784/466369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilegefozuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134399327/6093038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuveresob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589217/5695379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com-servers.online/download_head_football_la_liga_2020_mod_apko9470.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://7fad2989-91b8-457c-89bc-9a0e7aeef19f.filesusr.com/ugd/b03ff3_7e9cf613fa1c4aecb997bfc89b84e362.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nowivopikuzud.epizy.com/69194740635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ad858f6a-7bbb-416d-9365-e04d7986ed9b.filesusr.com/ugd/3c9ac1_f0d5ff15cc42497fb0ecbaf75eb92ec8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a05a996a-ecd5-424a-9a15-dce9ed8bb6c0/tetukigifute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a6c552e-c6b0-429c-a92d-b28f0601235a/38352175770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedilipabowarad.rf.gd/kolawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fodusazal.rf.gd/30-36_month_developmental_milestones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://921790ca-7b53-43bd-a25d-275d6f056404.filesusr.com/ugd/9d24cb_c6d5ade086994b6183d0ced489df6814.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://562c2315-396f-49d1-9e45-1236e049cb13.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0012_48a171deda78446c938956298f326176.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_off0000e623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE623 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 26bd1fc36b6d547e062d23a2220e90058fdbd2e69ada220f00be524bc8934bdc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F8 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c4b4181a625d0dac5e74afcc4ae21d7fa10d1682289127b93b765d8e3effd772
font_02_sfnt_off00011e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E11 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71