Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 270347ec50e4acb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-03-21 00:39:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: fba93db8271a85acdc28ad8674eb408a SHA-1: a00f53152f11acb6543c745266227b64f791bf64 SHA-256: 270347ec50e4acb3cfa2c777e9f02f7c09fa42cdcf032276f025527413456a3b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF documents, indicative of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, potentially leading to further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=authorization+letter+sample+to+process+documents+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dagigofeno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887245/2986661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siwusoxol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584737/tamokitukizi-lejinuginamep-bigotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461207/normal_6054d9be4d4e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367308/normal_602d95533272d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427080/normal_5ffa51ac971b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menanotiji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322389/wuruxinugexagakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zurejekivob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/3458a1970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451350/normal_60225134c9560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452199/normal_603aa5cd5bfd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusolaxunu.66ghz.com/kindle_4_file_formats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suxomaloki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598925/88c1a15a48a43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e022a9ee-d3cb-4c82-8d93-e439e52b6b4d/7023788734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faloboxodutak.epizy.com/84574730846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pifutujotot.epizy.com/improving_self_esteem_and_confidence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4ad55601-b8ab-4ae0-bc0e-e90069072326.filesusr.com/ugd/3aca14_994a3e1efd954574828c3ba3ccd6916e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://makitononudovo.epizy.com/cataclysm_dda_android_escape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://764dfaed-7091-4b1c-a8ff-ceb5b694923f.filesusr.com/ugd/4bafdb_f33b816b630b4a1f81ce9c29704e01c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7e9d9e0-8a14-4206-a558-35712103dc51/cloud_nine_sushi_duluth_mn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipawas.epizy.com/dr_tung_acupuncture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1f2f4fd-e3e2-43ce-ac97-2c35d055fa2e/70952271027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed81dc40-3e17-4525-8b35-ed930c84d303/casio_alarm_chrono_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kifixawoxo.epizy.com/palufigozone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6acf0ca1-aa41-4771-8b91-54baff69ee7f.filesusr.com/ugd/7d1dc9_dc7253e4e46e4d25b536e582d2cf93f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77bac38d-831a-46d6-8f22-d7743fcadc58.filesusr.com/ugd/5b9a87_f8dc421e80f242ef9b3631668ccfb836.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51A 5432 bytes
SHA-256: fe3500ab4ee99f52390ee463763c093d99c8913e3bc960ab14b434710baff6fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF771 10096 bytes
SHA-256: ede3bf39d1bc12c4dd19a857f295d0c3de081244887369f38c6e10ce4cae277f