Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eaa4d6248407d85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-02-14 01:03:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: af3da76ef9709f9c184f147af1d4b43d SHA-1: 8b1a9efee1a235e3a3b5d04dde82272acc8ff927 SHA-256: 0eaa4d6248407d858830a06cb13f1526f54fd1c85e3150df3d9e1a219ec5574a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a likely phishing or SEO spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://seumenha.ru/123?utm_term=what+is+the+purpose+of+the+joint+information+system PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451225/normal_5ff8f42493247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tudaluvakagovax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134614365/fikiminare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siwusoxol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584737/kelaziworifuvuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xexemisekugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134679242/varazuxaxaxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379486/normal_5fcbfabdd7de3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385021/normal_601a7f310d81f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418574/normal_601de57e36185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388626/normal_5fdb2d3676599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407102/normal_60066c771eb31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugilura.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317706/zijoxuporaw-timaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412174/normal_601b3c09e87ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panikelixiguju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134478359/pubuwamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403822/normal_6027379831fc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384150/normal_5fe8b1de584db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385011/normal_5fcd1bffcaad4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487906/normal_6009b00c548cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kilavolofijon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164174/wemada-folimo-wikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417644/normal_6017dc0b4ff8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wowemaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380083/7922540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serarabasujuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606617/2092978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogigeto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665346/9123249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gikojutubosolu.epizy.com/87122454590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zitupelu.epizy.com/brownsville_collaborative_middle_school_uniforms.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_off0000cc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC7D 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 2eaca0663d620e74a846935526e562b9f079bb226df78d997ffdeca5689b8a03
font_01_sfnt_off0000de72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE72 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 00a1bf4fbad954981535584d25d0a9597e222bb8cc95fd09c42eae3cd5350a64