Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faaa554b2a06b581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-02-24 19:00:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 733340f16186651a9c87af44978ca088 SHA-1: 2fa1312ff2ab16f86c69d6e9856c5bbd29544861 SHA-256: faaa554b2a06b58155e868a06cd73b686115c1773fce06c6c017b756094499d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Weebly-hosted PDFs with SEO-like titles, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://seumenha.ru/wix?keyword=medical+scribe+training+manual+pdf
    • https://jotesufuxave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483421/depuxused_buwemimisoposa_fukajut_sumemaxokidire.pdf
    • https://davugewozo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408984/fikugipuladaxi.pdf
    • https://jiresuzava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134706808/riwegulevupikuduv.pdf
    • https://zasawebisev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865024/2389b7f95.pdf
    • https://gajatizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315297/milibazizisera-pomasuligixom-japibev-loradosexiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixazizaze/jhieqgf/another_name_for_janitor_engineer.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453108/normal_5fe7d722e42b7.pdf
    • https://dawemewi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747996/bedizivedapes.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuxexi/sqlite3_commands_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bufipevuril/wedding_event_planner_website_template.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xajowu/57571381621.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d66b.bin
45b625bcb5f583ca30c3500b7dee91de991d8deb73477a6201a6a5841bd541e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66B 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e975.bin
b50151bc5f504868b1ac7076aaaebce9547ea0f315f6ffdeaae506c895e24cd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE975 9776 bytes