Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2dc35d0ced75c04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-03-28 08:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 98901e20ed15f1028a9208720d5209bb SHA-1: bb8bf2cca30220370db417b51505f33346541cb4 SHA-256: f2dc35d0ced75c04b70af55fc180a4c09d116724bddd3804915ed20da8db8f5a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to other PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains. This technique is often used to distribute malware or conduct phishing campaigns by redirecting users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of many external links suggest it's part of a larger scheme to generate traffic or spread malicious documents.

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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=best+auto+mechanic+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sowanigog/hhjijf6/dead_city_zombie_invasion_mod_apk_revdl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mivuxakadu/ejd307K/simple_bowling_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiwepuwefa.22web.org/giporeritazisugogululuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sirobuse/rjghaci/zokolofapusudovukado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kupuruvew/HjhXjcH/xonuxirunakunisodexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mamevugixej/hfgf4hf/space_run_galaxy_ships.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luginuwi/exuidtf/72299197838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gelowidabik/4iahjhb/electrician_apprenticeship_requirements_ontario.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kobadaxo/ha7hcjf/1947465038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zogobadakedu/W7hdjdO/borijemuponuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lumozupa/igIZher/bharat_petroleum_gas_subsidy_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lidupusumoj/jPhhkrH/2343506439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79d43bc1-20c2-4861-b1cc-408db60debb8/que_hace_un_agente_de_ventas_de_seguros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40785fcd-1e5e-4316-9306-5db1d5795eae.filesusr.com/ugd/2f07a1_1a146dfea1464f7eba172ca2dff725dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vekoxoke.epizy.com/avery_labels_5161_word_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gebusibe.rf.gd/business_progress_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6998e99d-c66f-4529-89e5-92c2653d9258/52818732620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinosizifaxuful.epizy.com/56082670040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f06ae689-34e6-4fd9-b749-a5985747e370.filesusr.com/ugd/4117a9_05a9c5030aa44d38bf7ac5bbaa77c6f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4ab595d-ad91-42c1-a41c-43df37dfc071/how_many_carbs_in_boston_market_chicken_pot_pie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47b4fc10-4dce-4dd6-bce9-8a9d55d6a1fc/jipuzinoguganilavosita.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_off00015983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15983 5520 bytes
SHA-256: eaaedb291451e35e2151a2958070dcadf83dc3b0753835ccfd029424ce7889a9
font_01_sfnt_off00016c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C29 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf50eec10aefbe11ea008563e2465105ade3ec7abe1dd89ac5ca5d173ae43d8