Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07aef837798b4c1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-03-31 01:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 6bbfe39343d4700e27688ce47b222d38 SHA-1: 56f29a8d03797af8382e10eb289c41f13b4cb6e3 SHA-256: 07aef837798b4c1cc9c32ea60be5770eb7009e573f1524fd30d52662c32f8a73
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to other PDF documents hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be disposable. The primary purpose seems to be SEO manipulation or potentially directing users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=sequence+and+series+pdf+class+11 PDF link annotation
    • http://kavupuv.iblogger.org/candle_patterns_forex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvobarapupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813490/e3bd2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xakidofe.sportsontheweb.net/pokemon_blue_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuwofukejixi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437867/ddf49bafbc72605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaxebegolozagu.iblogger.org/basic_concepts_of_inorganic_chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skout.tech/64826173600zz4w5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tazanup.mypressonline.com/difference_in_binomial_cdf_and.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugoxebojun.getenjoyment.net/bwv_1006a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobativ.mywebcommunity.org/53904563308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurleyshamburgers.com/azar_fundamentals_of_english_grammar_4th_edition7sskj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivewatot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999312/7866645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duketexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134725944/25f38e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirapunobos.22web.org/sepsis_icd_10_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://327bbe42-9aa5-4ca0-80e5-6c9857058a26.filesusr.com/ugd/2b870b_4b27bcf05d2140e686fef2003c5158a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kewivifonawati.epizy.com/80614275622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1c9bafd-2917-4c1b-b79c-a4b44a941470.filesusr.com/ugd/f0f215_6e18a89358a04d9ca640b6580a3d3b16.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://78f121e6-5824-477f-9480-4bf23eba804c.filesusr.com/ugd/9564ad_b7a40610e20b46c09039ad29790de52d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jozetej/22654205178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d4508431-0eee-4913-ac2a-2ec907ed9b18.filesusr.com/ugd/12daa7_3a1fe40ab89a4e8993637a9d10e90acf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wakuzidi/20446741290.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2F 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 12073adbb69600e40a65b8dec4e7d1819d1ca5f893272d5484db9c9fba065e79
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9A 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 545ea3cf3380242071f5b060c905f4ab1e74f6de6c85f4433e62fd886c383847
font_02_sfnt_off000111e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
font_03_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 3724 bytes
SHA-256: 373c38be6deba7a84c94c2dbcfdf2e859ea382cffb09d4a59e722cfb4537286c