Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27206a6a0830c012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 01:34:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: fd7aa1d3ece4fff5af66c6004283d8f7 SHA-1: afeb84599983f97605967c99fd65441557176ee2 SHA-256: 27206a6a0830c012ec634c37fc2ba5993b595a457719b48c60cc2f247074433f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm, with many pointing to disposable domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a novel summary. The presence of external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://xezojetit.ru/aws?utm_term=in+the+heart+of+the+sea+novel+summary PDF link annotation
    • http://kdghy.online/91691473062u9j0y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamaxenipukeg.iblogger.org/yaesu_ft-857d_antenna_tuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodaraloka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134761764/tewegoreduwa-mabevolufaguw-zuboketimoze-sovowezovijosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabigupux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442156/wixasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guzovadolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606502/5870411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianhua.life/what_paperwork_do_i_need_to_sell_my_car_in_ny9j5uy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unreguezff.rest/nra_ap-_1_targetgy2xm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rimaloxal.22web.org/veronediko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranianvc.com/best_free_hosting_sites_for_wordpressdwbx8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruzalonuxow.22web.org/how_to_get_good_at_sat_math.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
    • http://xojazexodiwosi.epizy.com/tufupuwipaguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3c8197b3-f999-4f29-b3da-fbdfea3dbf34.filesusr.com/ugd/0047a4_3eb06d71110043ee8c5119d718c3c864.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ritarejameja.epizy.com/53901603888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://46b09160-81f9-4cb3-9cca-f7b5b0c0229e.filesusr.com/ugd/179cc6_22936fa594f5498a932e0de1d617fdb2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e4fb9bf1-a3d6-4767-9bf2-2a1021e5dc09.filesusr.com/ugd/53cfc7_680a5e7509c24fa9b272717a87b63d98.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://serefelotu.epizy.com/omron_10_series_bp785_vs_bp786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vapovalexuma.epizy.com/bootstrap_form_group_row_center.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votitagupen.epizy.com/cara_vlookup_excel_beda_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3f740848-0e57-4b51-8596-564812021bec.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe17c_4b6795244d64487993451a5ece1bf0dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2eda13a9-9e0f-47dd-bbfa-a9a5028a3314.filesusr.com/ugd/61c57f_c9b33120c7434f049e094631cca057e6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e77dbea-16d6-438e-9859-4a68c5388828.filesusr.com/ugd/3225da_482858d51c574cb4a7e38b2fb6986c2f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a3c35cc3-4a3f-4d41-ab51-8b3e4b114d30.filesusr.com/ugd/2b25b5_bfb48d09d0d24836bbb8bdf48a891a1a.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAE 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 1e5b967d03fb0617c9c95589b75210d56038c6476afaf6ad875281c511d248bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4F 10660 bytes
SHA-256: edf8cf4e0f7eb4e433fb0d2ce19eb274f5d168b9782cd48253cb5d957af091a8
font_02_sfnt_off00011feb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c