Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07ef8b82eab76a3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-03-24 06:28:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 182affa6bb7fcd138139428700f5c042 SHA-1: da0ba9844a0017cab1bc79f17021a11753b9a7fd SHA-256: 07ef8b82eab76a3c11e78794bbcf7ccc6b54da587a2bec17bef323060ebe19d7
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'mining brochure pdf' and application metadata, further supporting the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=mining+brochure+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zukuxenopo/EjcvgfX/rock_and_roll_music_70s_and_80s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streamsweets.com/short_answer_study_guide_questions_romeo_and_juliet_act_2bwqyk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruvawuwejijexut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814193/33f0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detonic-ufficiale.website/kezijuzalubumejeniwukaiclq9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trikotoria.ru/evolution_of_earths_atmosphere_worksheet_answerssmsn3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladufuvugekowek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108614/513388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/penuputasa/jhgxRjh/wagon_train_theme_song_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vutowogipu/i2gceje/brain_waves_meditation_music_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupanotowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406855/dupozave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamaxorakumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134019068/poranoraxodatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmk4sale.xyz/historia_del_secuestro_en_mexicoj3k1y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1xbet-registr.site/genalobipikivagasozipobvxkf6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b4095e1f-5e43-4c35-8b28-ff0c3185c247.filesusr.com/ugd/9cc3de_e9aeaf3dd482430eb39669c77a897475.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac614e2c-2e00-43e4-a80f-2c6bce9fb64b.filesusr.com/ugd/f103bb_35b4730dbb2c4654b865f237d1462202.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://78fc25e8-d533-4ec3-a480-3617e8cc0d4b.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5866_1f2c3ffd7f3a423bb526555e24322509.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ef733714-782c-48ea-8991-1bc0bf0c95f2.filesusr.com/ugd/ad2ade_2fcc2e91a6464682bd3f98d7cdcd4436.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c538924d-9290-4e35-808b-5013ecaac822.filesusr.com/ugd/047ea9_74c8a54a884f41fe993e1d9235bdd7c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4eff3ec4-d147-45d1-be73-876d9e1d0019.filesusr.com/ugd/efb3f0_1c366bee5f89414890b7e5d87bdd5e9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5ee0d2ad-6486-47ce-ab7d-0e7b2bae4193.filesusr.com/ugd/bc0d1e_f097b48b610d487c92b204991ba7f0a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f65501f-cdae-4966-b9db-49b15ad9d196.filesusr.com/ugd/52b593_22fc369b7e9d4f9096b8d0b479f710b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9cf93ecd-64ee-4ad6-afcc-f350577a7522.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_58c4d3ade37a4e23be78f650e8ac659f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://23da7c74-6e14-424a-b22a-901aa35eafb1.filesusr.com/ugd/9cc572_85f0fc3ec1284277b98fbd5436f7c76f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://95c758d6-fd33-43c6-b5d0-f1f55e07e946.filesusr.com/ugd/cb0188_d0c2ca52c6664abd97e136565094418c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be1b941d-c88c-475c-9260-a39c9d088d9d.filesusr.com/ugd/5c562d_d6b95408683e416fb3063489a642a16f.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73A 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 7ea43fb39706e85dcb17d86b01c0627e57228140902e104d3663ebf7aa4d7d38
font_01_sfnt_off000108c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C9 12192 bytes
SHA-256: 0c29f316f6e80f59911a64f17da1e4a5675f241ee6fe6b3a33b62cbc34726cb7
font_02_sfnt_off00013245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13245 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 712e26b6f5b059844c7311147b1ebcd4cfb2b038c6ca36563dcaf2ef9c61bd69