Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0e7fec1840bd99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-02-28 07:28:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 2c1870764408b7c780ec316765a36c1f SHA-1: cf43cccbf2995eb9ba0f7e7374caecc4f5205339 SHA-256: 2a0e7fec1840bd999b6aa5b69b40af2bb003aeb4cc39ecad2a196eabf453fea2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically identifying the link farm behavior. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=tree+of+life+in+bible+verses PDF link annotation
    • https://zujuwaxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307850/lifoxavimugekapikexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woxazalaxit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235403/9292756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keksik24.ru/business_intelligence_tools_and_techniquesv8zur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugomalaked.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324661/bofowitigajudas-dijejejikojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavki-na-sport.site/why_isnt_america_the_greatest_country_in_the_world_anymore76j0w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuwiratuzitezep.22web.org/bulksms_for_android_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poverkavoda.website/braun_thermoscan_thermometer_lens_filters_lf_20132p5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vewuwoxefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379256/2536579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mumaxeje/NqhcOvj/pottery_wheel_for_sale_los_angeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369653/normal_5ff9b6a17890a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winnerslm.space/55506940996jj3rv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobenebovi/wZhbYgh/bigotti_shoes_romania.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitikado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134660078/tijudolodafajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454682/normal_600a2069151bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berozava.iblogger.org/intouchables_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupuwuzom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438231/1253028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fobapisarut.epizy.com/gupta_and_gupta_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadusevi.rf.gd/tennessee_williams_rose_tattoo.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_off0000ea7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7F 4700 bytes
SHA-256: dfe6ba4eed86b07e56c285b33cdae8e604eb2ef684e0c9b61f6bf36af6b973ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA97 10420 bytes
SHA-256: c2732ac15321407f6f26b496c3c2cd9a7f3d6781601d2a3460cd76126ce705ff

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