Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f69e04dbf2c11018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-05-26 16:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 56c6914e545470435ffe256b50e29991 SHA-1: de461c31dbcc7d44c67ddc3f3d08e50f2f7f0df9 SHA-256: f69e04dbf2c11018de7479b0fe689bc9ce7b18a25f07dcaa6f8b66d1da51a9c4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to redirectors and SEO link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' strongly suggest this is a lure for free downloads or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=4th+grade+subject+and+object+pronouns+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://doxazefeseremef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764644/sugalakisu_fifemiw_fidusesawikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464311/normal_5fc5f272873d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikoxujedogusu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665618/bizibedowewero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410694/normal_601a7224a48f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubebonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874554/xizigikiwuz-zijutekepel-nikituregu-solukipeketuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456387/normal_6006103d29b35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373504/normal_5fd9ccd6a5230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477386/normal_600c85809cf97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448539/normal_60058fb8ee7a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xunujigunabiwuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017077/kopasusajibafulelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378618/normal_60045ccb66872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413227/normal_5fe4fcb7c459d.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/edff64e1-fab0-480e-bdf8-5d7b822506d9/27419355537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8f8057a-ef6b-4f82-9744-c1a12f6bbc5e/georgia_driver_license_schedule_appointment_pa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4acbf447-15ac-401f-ae14-c91c01e46153/wefaxaguxezevejelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03ea33ac-be36-4c70-b2e3-a62e48bda79c/pioneer_sc-9540_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7380af9-f68b-4b67-9702-061e04bac39e/32833464190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2bc722aa-7aad-490a-b103-c5b8e6dfc5bf/la_republica_de_platon_libro_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79b19dc7-59dc-4e39-bb60-ddb557130f9a/92902590587.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_off0000cf85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF85 5668 bytes
SHA-256: ba073648713746f7b9a04b9f3f059683fbdda4b0ae4cedbaf85b29d8448f0f4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DE 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 2eace038b043e932a8af8262e63357e8fb779488e68e19cfe0f6c9a286fa07be