Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9d641933763a4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-01-08 03:07:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 48c31d570481f66103d401bf9992b1ed SHA-1: 421488ebe9cbce35b6ba9fbd92b858b968c1b020 SHA-256: f9d641933763a4a9542269f4bc5340f33d18752d34d2683bc628df28af09d4ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, flagged as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic, suggesting a malicious intent to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs indicates a phishing or content-farming attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=ucla+math+31a+final PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390383/normal_5f987bf628fa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/netimawifes/AhaidR5/fashion_beat_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupureforisuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353583/vitozubunizegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417519/normal_5fa4c8b968589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367017/normal_5ff12e9df067e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386087/normal_5ff65df377ab2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403429/normal_5fa2f6abbf8af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382413/normal_5f8c70721f2b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420748/normal_5f9a73b7972bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/libeganot/bitcoin_miner_windows_8.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_off0000e0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C7 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4fa63160716cb3554cbce6978a59628d9a3bddcc8921243aa9e0baf9281fa6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E6 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 938e8281d7bf36a8915d4365ab46a00c77d873d4f38231d7ea964c82bbbf3ab4