Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 271289e20af6ee39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-03-21 07:19:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 7fefbe0726728280ab065928bcc32dd9 SHA-1: f6b81820dad96c70ab65a43651dc576162972ffe SHA-256: 271289e20af6ee39a9c80b0123b3f728b4f0d40d9d23b4f9e206097419cbdbdb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://lozipotod.ru/award?keyword=plant+ecology+and+phytogeography+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nomuvafemokin.iblogger.org/florida_weed_identification_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuwafanumi.iblogger.org/99565680568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416660/normal_604d2ad97e905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418993/normal_600ad68ba0fde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://linakagiwabofa.epizy.com/58966300501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b5fa3f3-591c-4e3a-b961-3854ed17bdb4/5th_grade_opinion_writing_exemplars.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19f4d1a4-a717-4c5b-95d2-3a9e58bc7809/how_to_keep_a_pelonis_heater_on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibibojusajol.rf.gd/19604720549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f39034e-403a-4fb5-ab1d-e5c9628f0ce2/trig_ratios_practice_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejoguxufipen.epizy.com/visual_studio_code_python_formatting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0dea665b-aaaa-42f3-a52c-f86f0fd1efa2.filesusr.com/ugd/8b9728_113892f65e954395a4f01d0e4126d0bf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7a9ad5c-714a-42a5-97ee-dcd087006df3/century_fc_90_welder_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dosidojabar.epizy.com/33556141464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e99cf80d-ec78-466e-8357-107756f9f4a0/72207897849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2052ff72-52d1-409b-8e81-07379e7a40f5/what_factors_affect_diversity_in_an_ecosystem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f131326-0342-4132-b784-1e53689a2e9c/willhi_wh1436a_temperature_controller_110v_digital_thermostat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f0facb5-00cb-4adb-947b-4dc7dab8248a/kanesurojolanebutopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22390c47-cf19-4cea-ae5b-30ad8da00ba6/christmas_things_to_draw_easy_step_by_step.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a3c35cc3-4a3f-4d41-ab51-8b3e4b114d30.filesusr.com/ugd/2b25b5_10d368587b774770892b00e9f8a48528.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ee4a7b6-b68f-4ca6-b1fe-da32495b166a/bovexuzajinuloxuwelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemujiv.epizy.com/background_png_hd_free.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_off0000fc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC83 5344 bytes
SHA-256: f2db612c488b3fc89f73eda56f8206528238134023c777a2fa6a02837ce712fd
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB4 13272 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5d4d78860f0871c8c6a4da55a2757b173c6281f5d0af7fc7292d71d968cdfe