Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f74314e366605c08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-03-15 19:57:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d0ffce2cb3a3ea4251fd1afd37ce997f SHA-1: 2061829bbb7f136f257aefb4a9bbec6265d63d86 SHA-256: f74314e366605c08592ffe88835de0ff4c49500e8c44861961c99f4d67ccf8c0
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, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=who+is+lady+macbeth%2527s+husband PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464707/normal_5fdd86fd6c97b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suwajipufo/jJShejd/level_157_farm_heroes_super_saga_help.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470385/normal_60004e81d6a9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisudosus/hb2KiiF/12586980895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414353/normal_5ffa957d5ec26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisasizaro/hchf0jg/samufabutumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixukiko/eYYXhjc/newezagapabipumavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366973/normal_6027e69edfeee.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/a9d69f84-640a-41df-8a79-deb4219546a7/kawasaki_fr651v_engine_oil_type.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d63aa625-362f-47a7-94b5-7850fae7e53f/6501215775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9ee5130f-2ec4-41c4-96e5-93d9cb9f253a/how_to_replace_a_lg_washer_drain_pump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddfbffb5-f9c8-4bc6-bc05-4e8b6d038166/zuzijaxumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fd0ef26f-7b8f-4c91-b3b2-19f7ec93487a.filesusr.com/ugd/4174bf_25a5a0c63d6f4c1c9393e2bf3bb01ceb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fa788c9-137a-4285-9967-12d65ea3f243/sujudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tupofelasujewas/46278968787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5d3a3edc-1384-4eb0-a354-174dd54c13aa.filesusr.com/ugd/7f5dc5_209e1531eb6843efb0583e3ab754c3c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voxulija/g_shock_ga_100cm_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kodipopujufipig/cabac_lugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://113c517c-d7b0-4b36-99d7-6722bcb7ef36.filesusr.com/ugd/8e66a5_8406b7d4008a4232bc5e6f340c1975ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c63359c4-faa5-40af-ad11-254ddd3d100c.filesusr.com/ugd/838c33_6b6ef2884622449cb22080dbd3a1fdc1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf02e336-6d6f-400a-b295-b70cee91d517/64838449675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c67367bd-ae37-4702-9d2e-bf18685b3b03/627536490.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_off0001200a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200A 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 1982bcb16249faaaafc4b5198eb9189c964eeee6847a2a1394eb514852bffd44
font_01_sfnt_off00013244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13244 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 249ff26690ff68678247250914edf626d92260c4baaf11f8a117f62ad25f5eb9