Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a3eea1277a65be1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-18 10:57:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 06a3b64133e480e41f1183bd90a57ea6 SHA-1: c9f188304ddbf3d89fff22205bea94645a22e619 SHA-256: 2a3eea1277a65be17b37adb34614525712bbd201f3f44344120e3ed9a8fd0e2d
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, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=benefits+of+soil+organic+matter+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xagigusutop.iblogger.org/instruccin_general_del_misal_romano_tercera_edicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mutuwatu/cujg2HR/samsung_family_hub_netflix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kenujowemi/lMgdhgt/42267831321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453747/normal_6052e557d73b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503197/normal_603bf0c27e44b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/natokaze/eicgcgf/3753940868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387060/normal_6037280299cf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pabukelib.66ghz.com/borussia_dortmund_real_madrid_4-_1_formazioni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b304dada-1952-41b2-af44-d16a3232bb3f.filesusr.com/ugd/c19c34_eff1d6a0b793449f8b5c8b8de46a2fba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pimovutune.rf.gd/antivirus_for_windows_8_trial_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3f5765b5-411c-4b28-96d1-a1e3b219bcee.filesusr.com/ugd/ca847e_b3f01e5b296946c98ff00ac4ba59a57d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77701ba7-c5ad-4750-ab17-5b03548f7fc0.filesusr.com/ugd/9a242c_00d7ca9a430f4e7aa16f39efdbbbb75b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_419c3fec39e846b0b388ea1f67fa82fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58296043-175a-4221-9cc3-f4368d7b8edb/pidokekurekenibuwawanesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac58a1ab-6043-4437-ae98-a6430740e700/how_to_stop_drinking_alcohol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://75a697d3-84f0-44cf-bab9-f05e37020c50.filesusr.com/ugd/7c3584_e54aa21dbaee49fba2ced1a8d93948d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/323e108b-24fa-480d-99f0-bed03465465e/peter_lynch_one_up_on_wall_street_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tewejifofobaj.rf.gd/aqw_le_bot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://af0fe010-594a-4ec7-a26b-e2d78e33490d.filesusr.com/ugd/7d2910_2ca700eef1934ef78228e7ba0d2809dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ef2f354-78a3-4528-990c-72f69c86fc6a.filesusr.com/ugd/6a0da6_654197a8ca7f4de4a5b251330a08d8fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://feniboladesa.rf.gd/jilikosukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1cac464c-4f2b-4057-9f34-6b207410059a/93718823371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9a9665e-668c-41ff-9c1f-d21d3551961a/lejogagiwulunuwu.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_off0000f539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF539 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 3358352c20c31e322d2652ffddb4410a0871942cf3f2da5fae3eeb7b06b51be7
font_01_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 8340887074a2dde5a05cf3fcbb8a5e11160256c6748685b232935618d6609bb0