Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f44e268edf0cecfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-03-05 19:52:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: cf884be6d179e04c5f9bd78471ef1d29 SHA-1: 3da9e3cbf069af39c784aef367ea18752037c5f6 SHA-256: f44e268edf0cecfe1cc96061a18fa8581e31be9f517852e4c41bf840c2753dd3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, identified as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=integral+cos+x+exp+x PDF link annotation
    • https://dogixosewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633635/wavomoguvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damanula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856109/8258266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407793/normal_602d944c7d3a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorowijedo.mywebcommunity.org/rofekalifotaxowewinesuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445866/normal_5fc66b1317e57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vosuzupitozom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135313705/nedinalefuzonutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ninisajata.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869212/derelakeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470035/normal_5fe668036f79d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dujojiwasemob.mywebcommunity.org/95597008168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369191/normal_602261f71795a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goxatuzibifonev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739188/9752843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393044/normal_6006989b12acf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nodewanase/iiahdji/titaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jezofadu/igfGifX/dawurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paxaxidelubexid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344916/3811285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vugomupuzisa/cKgjKhe/need_for_speed_racing_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xamawigokoke.mygamesonline.org/51026426682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojijeku.mygamesonline.org/how_to_fix_a_keurig_that_wont_dispense_water.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://puxetedategekex.epizy.com/veweken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafodix.myartsonline.com/how_much_is_my_browning_a5_worth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xokeraje.rf.gd/91565750133.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_off0000d8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EC 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 5375135610f651370e718393687cbfdfda1d5d481c94da3d16ac585772e43937
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA65 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 9de52c451a3a4189d938151f8a8f081b12d46c1737fb2f8b72e0f4d495115414