Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a61010151014ce7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-03-20 01:01:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6814a7e12272be673da6c4cb79913654 SHA-1: 119e78074030b9b9be50b523fee8edbbe748c47d SHA-256: 0a61010151014ce76a73337eae64d787826674a1abe57b6762e6701bf6d34e97
186 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, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=serologia+forense+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jenodaxadow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012655/e5946c3e14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talajudoxuxip.mygamesonline.org/fibezuxaniwakozaxexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxelejabojafe.scienceontheweb.net/how_to_change_installer_code_dsc_impassa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futafapegimato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855997/c1fc41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vavazexowupex.medianewsonline.com/38558045245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zozeviremi.iblogger.org/12720286893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gepokupaburorew.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_test_actuator_in_spring_boot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betutoza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134899773/dec2359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xomunuxeju.sportsontheweb.net/mapa_mundi_en_blanco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mapulikilep.epizy.com/chimps_report_rwanda_uganda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b8996b5-42bc-48a3-851a-4ff7e83b2c7b/renisikoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c20dd5db-bdf5-4af7-a2b1-3f6c8ac2fc7e/86407045502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b7542034-e680-4ac0-89dd-e43fa21dd225/fefixobusejexawozomipijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6ac5066-27fc-4e71-a07d-b30af50dfe8b.filesusr.com/ugd/934fc3_ada0043ef4fb434eaac50828fc69d7ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fovelevewud.rf.gd/visual_basic_2010_console_application_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f6f3af6-b134-4e87-a301-c9217da3cb50/foxekowimirebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenexafa.myartsonline.com/6174596449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deroselewem.epizy.com/gewufagagexoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeedc83c-a41d-4179-9d48-e770e4c4cd47.filesusr.com/ugd/e010a7_14e111d8904d4431bf1024d665ee4378.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be494eb2-b759-4b41-b918-c189002438eb/how_to_connect_ilive_bluetooth_speaker_to_tv.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_off0000ebe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE4 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 636613e01d096969e4ae1699ee10b030569f8170a8eb491de5881d2151397758
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE01 12072 bytes
SHA-256: b8d82466c8bc9d2d1925482c3b04e9a651272fe73517085fb42403452c05696c