Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 032e52af272b1f67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-01-14 05:23:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 5eb92d0fc1ceb4de4ee26e207da3881f SHA-1: 3346db6e5ebe8647779c397eef5fff5b3dbf8327 SHA-256: 032e52af272b1f6795e7c3bf45aaebd3b55a2efe57d87c3c251c6c92ff596f9a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is identified as malicious by both ML classification and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an SEO manipulation or content distribution scheme. The presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=business+card+template+word+avery+5371 PDF link annotation
    • https://lujadogube.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522393/9277609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofowijajexer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476616/zifowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazexupojofon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409098/c1c3a275dd8b075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pigudoxuwupif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437670/7723445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolujamikudaze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868466/momozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lipowuripipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/e276efd25922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1172403.mozfiles.com/files/1172403/digital_marketing_course_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumogifizutuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527103/taverusowapo-kirop-gonojoxoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavumake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740551/b2a07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xavujome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739328/kazujonogasaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bativizamazon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770744/bea4fb6d3b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1195189.mozfiles.com/files/1195189/likawosarafexafozuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zixeveke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702539/1919914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigodabazo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134872933/tumipuwomogudojibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kukatuvitakutir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690336/xorixazevofol.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/vexeliku/ms_sql_server_2017.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_off0000e31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31A 5940 bytes
SHA-256: c7fc86b0dcf487c0ead40ee0e1000cb9816be719a9730fe09843d979c7099c68
font_01_sfnt_off0000f76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76B 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b44c9057425f8fd54f99632173de43a3463665a09c0fe77e0cf6a21c97816923