Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0e4aa356d6d1c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-03-15 06:25:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: e487090eb0299abb3f70e00f0a225b38 SHA-1: 805e8fa292861fa26377077ee07142b9bec82859 SHA-256: 2c0e4aa356d6d1c4aaa381d7009449e12f6729393b17829192d2ed1950fc9ee9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

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://resalured.ru/wix?keyword=chemical+calculations+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sowopezamiw.medianewsonline.com/mufajakejebevotoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujagexurej.medianewsonline.com/how_to_make_a_study_guide_for_chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zumanidoxup.medianewsonline.com/12671134840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notawax.iblogger.org/clostridium_difficile_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifukimoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134357082/9734199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaweworamek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610398/b0783aa7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poxesaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738711/notumutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xifofenanupov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134857182/gitiwoxuvotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sidawiw.iblogger.org/tivazogefifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balegetiwep.mywebcommunity.org/vocabulary_power_plus_book_4_lesson_9_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retapadu.medianewsonline.com/nipisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bivojeda.atwebpages.com/47186832778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e37e838-c278-4d46-baa9-25b8497af200.filesusr.com/ugd/fbcb80_a396be5052734835afa2736c8b070585.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2bb1521a-7155-4dc3-975e-c7fa0f19d3cc/what_does_criminal_law_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f387116-6d47-4a96-bf8e-d7c6eba88ab4/excellent_gifts_for_mothers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pezamax.myartsonline.com/favuxiwoveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c7313fe-33ed-4e2c-8b9e-13edf2273fbc/jolemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://55963656-6eb1-4b25-bcd5-bb835d65808b.filesusr.com/ugd/0064ae_f7d94ecde5514287812ac712948ae32f.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D1 5456 bytes
SHA-256: cdab46049d0456021fb1266bef971aacc53d3bbbb1c54b7c589eaaba82593ad8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f43f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43F 10512 bytes
SHA-256: db8a07a644cfb39b238835b792896d3df2ade9fafe55768e4542d7a020cfc950

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