Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3f62f9558d7b97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-05-27 04:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 461abca503e9895b88c472fffbcb7ece SHA-1: d01d3a87930ad4736070b38981c1776fe1f2e65a SHA-256: fe3f62f9558d7b974bb1fedf93d5669cdbad3b37c55daee2a5a4dea88ca57571
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, indicating a link farm strategy designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=candy+cladogram+lab+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475212/normal_5fe1bba850430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukoperupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134743664/499142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zojevobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163992/pijixuza-sijunalasa-zuzoza-wonexojolixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kafigibedup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134479504/zuwikizesewuzadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415518/normal_605be07839982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donedupefunesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607777/pufukivarotarowules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404285/normal_5fe811d1eb742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walafikug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740659/nuvuxuwezak-mokukitukozu.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/7b723931-1ff5-4e9e-bbc8-328d18809835/pixowimuvomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c1292f1-a3a1-43a8-b936-0793fcbc9db6/husky_gravity_feed_hvlp_spray_gun_h4840ghvsg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e750909-902f-4b35-9a35-16eac86b093d/who_sells_lock_pick_sets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43cd7edb-f9be-4791-98d3-4954bef2b761/ludovico_einaudi_nuvole_bianche_spartito_pianoforte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb646e22-924f-404d-9d50-ecec945cd409/stylish_text_generator_for_pubg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a826abfe-16bd-4537-b56f-2e5eed10ad6c/sivemejevoxatatelexodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4b4c34b-e1da-48ed-a0bf-5a1f116e3f7f/why_does_my_window_air_conditioner_turn_off_by_itself.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9f753b3-d247-4db7-9654-d1ddc9d4708d/kekati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83a0867a-fe4e-4a0f-9ec9-a24cd6533406/how_do_you_practice_controlled_breathing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bccf5d92-1239-41a0-98db-927944cb10cd/spencerian_penmanship_lessons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ffa409a9-86fd-4992-967b-0f34bcebb038/91009306373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67390168-acfc-42f6-9914-75147b7502db/how_many_years_does_it_take_to_become_a_doctor_in_spain.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_off0000e913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE913 5560 bytes
SHA-256: a0d1b99f1f3631bf8dc6b9ad573e2b38d8cd873a0ac7a1c61a7e12a26f847649
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFD 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 7d1132d239fb5a814c270f7af46faaefdbef7597d8049aef7172d7119cd0c9fb