Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a27904906e298a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-02-19 01:27:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 7eb1c5290d9aa8664cb17d28f09f38a4 SHA-1: ef228f512d810318ef625a0348c28724170f2805 SHA-256: 21a27904906e298a5f943404467b54ba0fc73c0bde28ebb3af7d86bb60383522
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URLs likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=super+size+me+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://lovevupadu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135328586/292488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405642/normal_5fcd7aac4b6ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xujuladobagaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437733/bawosopobasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizadububexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595199/7004c644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netexebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815192/zazifidaxiv-lufuvi-tanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamabaxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134650964/b6e9b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomazadoxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134474586/galetodezim_deziretejufojuf_pupijap_xadususiwomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogejizerabori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134763318/jelagejulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabidodavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408103/vanaxom_jozisuwokokina_goretomikumawob_sagedijodobukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzavadakugodo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134857872/6044036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezitiratad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856143/54163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fodakapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637942/197889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesunewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438127/115122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weraxugunelega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719696/losufabolodora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wekujugom.epizy.com/assignment_of_rights_contract_template.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_off0000d1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A9 5344 bytes
SHA-256: d8afcbae0b7f02886eeea1d0fb02db882a621bdac650fad0d83c83741cba3357
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DE 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 816da7633c277b56bfc295f621cffe6b529011251b47a60a93e7a68734b820eb