Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0305bc555f7f46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-06-09 20:38:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 56ebae5e35670af0abb8edf4bb4e362c SHA-1: a933c79a40cb8a9ea97a215a4c1897cb78503b07 SHA-256: 2a0305bc555f7f468987aa83a94d6f49379e1df4dd72a7bbf39bd071b5d21116
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'adjustment program epson l220' and authoring information, indicating a lure to trick users into visiting malicious URLs. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests the primary purpose is to drive traffic to other sites, likely for malware distribution or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=adjustment+program+epson+l220 PDF link annotation
    • https://gogafijunovox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322332/86c0d482fcffc9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozukepob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017809/db783132c737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevigetadafuwun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969942/8597921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumimobubaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640569/b8a7d88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizotikozuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587863/rekibafemezenuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomudonaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134715401/0f94d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisizupesaxog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636899/867659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dabemevabun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476179/dunijabamijorin_xivuwe_sobid_tapumabezupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxapuwale.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815799/zikivumeratopusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pekizaworix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657316/dfd9bae9067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulobivamil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374027/6015701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gakulenem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437742/b9e3c25a41ba7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nixefijevumu.pbworks.com/f/nivefokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palejemevat.pbworks.com/f/29555332906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40a7d8cf-1771-4fdd-a67f-9c42f66f947a/druid_feats_pathfinder_kingmaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4bc43c0d-ed40-4332-aaf5-d1ac94e56171/wuxugubiveboxamajeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2aad1551-b8b6-4888-a5bc-d6753ad2d78f/nobegenadasavepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88ca64ab-0d2f-4217-88a7-848ec924ca7f/jujopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b5e02b9-a260-4ae9-9d26-2b3c3bdcd9d0/chapter_17_the_great_depression_begins_quizlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damopijos.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144499137/mediation_skills_and_techniques.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_off0000dd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD03 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 6887a7807a6e1cc0b4d39fc847c489cebc2474bbaf397b35be9f3ccb6fbc1f97
font_01_sfnt_off0000f005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF005 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccad122784029bd8fb647917ac3bb8ccd61a90a2a6f750051d89ff157497260