Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f62c34540f2b5e25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-06-03 13:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 683822183f5249780d43f2dd3f4ee1de SHA-1: 7d8eb5d97042535a6e377b87c712e5490fbf70d9 SHA-256: f62c34540f2b5e250b33fb56bdb5a94d770d4ff6525ef04a194dd3439a5a3e7d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

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://coretry.ru/pbw?utm_term=logo+quiz+game+answers+level+13 PDF link annotation
    • https://tedibijufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134678634/sufapukov-dewatinizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465018/normal_603d3632cb58b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377931/normal_5ff470d2384f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posokirotol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814476/tugerutuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokevifiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657891/berozemidire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454184/normal_600607619f1a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowafoxupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986725/7634487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mevenuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380719/9025763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowivana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813667/pekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380073/normal_5ffdc789c98c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fupigipefixoxom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379213/lupizefov-nomiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504641/normal_6067573757254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sewafebi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144426612/what_can_melchizedek_priesthood_holders_do.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedidovetaw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144417444/gagobepejepotezowiriwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexibitite.pbworks.com/f/4127165134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72cbc48b-c0d6-46fd-89e2-b3b76e31fbf1/interview_questions_for_administrative_assistant_in_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05adf87b-20fa-419e-9768-47bfc806778c/addition_and_subtraction_with_regrouping_worksheets_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://negovijalulu.pbworks.com/f/super_robot_wars_r_gba_english_patch.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_off0000d68a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68A 5492 bytes
SHA-256: f3b76d756f946fad60e0a8c1940cf8ed18730edadc7cc803cdc954c5acd97312
font_01_sfnt_off0000e94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94D 10840 bytes
SHA-256: c3215b9680eb06b6dd28db52692bb02504f15f1213cd0d559f5b9c1333a3674b