Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb4835caa49e4a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-03-07 14:56:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8522b861ab6f970ecb951f3b6c49c323 SHA-1: 996af6d38e7a6ec41fe7d566f9983796a8928697 SHA-256: fdb4835caa49e4a07be5590294d24b44065958bc14a3966ef0abe78892d943ba
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into executing a command, a common social engineering tactic. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/123?utm_term=gateway+dx4860-ub32p+drivers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393644/normal_600f72e748f20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411219/normal_5feea4c1de3cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372105/normal_6035d7d03cbdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puviwaxeraw.22web.org/calculating_celsius_to_fahrenheit_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386607/normal_60206a48ae6ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367667/normal_60250a42d717a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402478/normal_602b5871d78ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475389/normal_5feb40586fe8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369915/normal_5ff50fd099cd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459785/normal_60426d7e0da63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374715/normal_5fd8f723600d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://562c2315-396f-49d1-9e45-1236e049cb13.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0012_5360efe35ce4420488c85beb5571b951.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9eb5ee95-128e-4115-bcd6-d8db8525ce49.filesusr.com/ugd/9904c2_596a672f9f624dd29ef268e1ab99fa8e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://393102e6-89af-4738-8cad-89662dba8dc5.filesusr.com/ugd/33a16d_86cda3feb6554a37941cacdab5b17706.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zunuwovadete.epizy.com/injustice_gods_among_us_apkmonk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9cfe8934-cc69-4f76-a0d0-2e9849ea4530.filesusr.com/ugd/fd9558_86e99faf45394791bc3d550eb4a65100.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e9abb47e-19e5-4ec2-9f3c-2aa4e6f2bf0a.filesusr.com/ugd/92be99_77d69511c4dd4c69ab0e1712c68d8282.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tudifilik.rf.gd/fishbone_template_for_root_cause_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwejux.epizy.com/python_docstring_param_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4de1274e-a26b-4e71-a0d1-d86f0cfee7ee.filesusr.com/ugd/ee4d88_31ac6d805a8a41e89f5f4bd74b4f3a0d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000ece4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE4 6320 bytes
SHA-256: 814ee23b27add4796c5f07ed45618a530184b0f9dcb25e3dc8385f83e45d183f
font_01_sfnt_off00010294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10294 12048 bytes
SHA-256: 6eca58a2d4f7c87b9489ae06462b01914ba58c8ed18ab8255114e4c4d324817f