Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e7e52bbffdb6dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-03-22 06:56:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 381eebfb10fa54bed1832415473d357d SHA-1: bd2eeaf06fb23a4243b631da6b33b310860113fd SHA-256: 29e7e52bbffdb6dc46941c82c3fdb19e35baa6a0589f60bf52530a3e605465dd
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to search terms, directing users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://lozipotod.ru/award?keyword=audioslave+be+yourself+tab+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://instas.site/what_is_the_purpose_of_a_balanced_scorecardccrwk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pegugigatusib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134460290/wasivozotonimoxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kopilixa/jdMxLhf/41205882847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460466/normal_6026098299b47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384459/normal_6016413ede5a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanluxe.com/philips_multigroom_5000_manualiew2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartbright.club/ginkgo_tree_planting_guideyq87f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musekakilex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406804/sodilage_zidibotutovaj_kegebu_satezaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toredakiwireg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739366/93444271f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4505839/normal_5fedf4a48ed29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helplnstagramcontact6088758.com/48800196621x5fc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pogiwaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312355/9811365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewapukin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961798/57c2ff939d2eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejexiguwela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164442/c71e250b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mutakisutuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134768563/tuzevibofi-logebig-bejumakupo-gitavivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381752/normal_600e559197c30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wowedofu/R1Fui5E/25428567762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447258/normal_6019731391bdd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likudone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134681098/f0e58.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/008882cf-e8f6-48db-8cf9-246e333445e1/87066987563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29409847-8e7d-4a86-b43d-9e8235fb9595/dirt_devil_endura_max_filter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9559c15-dd7f-43a3-a4c6-6cbfe04a74ac/ipega_9023_settings.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE503 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 90e27b6d3cae081efaf3f4d5f6b33b07a0d950cbcf392ff0bba5dfeee410a827
font_01_sfnt_off0000f739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF739 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 00343370a3218b8747a15e61613f965228f0870e9e4a2714a3a7e15524ad7d86
font_02_sfnt_off00011c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C83 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15