Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea73dac60adae38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2020-11-14 04:17:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5efeca5a012cab5f45ef1079d212f5c5 SHA-1: 7205c38d19f4166b8ca6113b49ca72649583823e SHA-256: 0ea73dac60adae380186ea93ad09e846f60b049ca5b694a3f5b3be8c73c861cc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=surface+area+calculator+calculus PDF link annotation
    • https://sixexarujizevav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584368/6497300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387929/normal_5fa81e9d1655a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378393/normal_5f9ab264595d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422897/normal_5fa2159a59e36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378846/normal_5f8e258135e79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367645/normal_5f89c1ec750a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebezudo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042436/7674194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvofexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163751/1228819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383791/normal_5f8f31a8e2caf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazajiti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134456981/724389bba2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415951/normal_5f9e0216893ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tojuxumisadef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134714483/tafosa_jojudunivojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebebutak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744698/vabukoguzinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412996/normal_5f9ee4ef4d652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393189/normal_5f90bbb135635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumixopid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872042/guxiz.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/530884e2-5077-4139-b0b4-8874ecf01e3f/wowaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/789df5ae-9fc2-4420-938e-1d8641f7dab7/rafarokunasokupogobagusaf.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d78f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78F 4704 bytes
SHA-256: f45af9ab32d38562622e1afd9a7436a5263fa7706eefdce5e447cfc952b9682d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE793 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 6f89e0e4f043f4d061bff999abd84198ab4cb39a103f69d37928a35328afff0f
font_02_sfnt_off00010e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34