Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c816758a8d4a680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-03-24 00:19:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 63e2623f300e4b45c038609b93c739ed SHA-1: 7835bfbdfbf757fca9ac106f7be1f60cd2997422 SHA-256: 2c816758a8d4a68058076fe96cc977cdc0bd54ef02dd38cf22a518d04a1328f7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or ad revenue. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or ad-heavy sites, likely as a prelude to further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://botokaw.ru/wix?keyword=show+your+work+austin+kleon+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://zojegidaluvimov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109086/sifipeb-girobati-sakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387701/normal_605626327fd82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meetporte.xyz/cs_lewis_screwtape_letters_audiobook_freep9xln.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dokakuzod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884054/2f498d5dc82620c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490738/normal_6006138f00dcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewuxufasebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320084/5424846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wunovolal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311751/pemedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwshootersupply.com/88513645780cycln.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werumitepoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739038/mubaxewexakalegoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itchia.space/561309106486dw1r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinoxca.xyz/xiwuduputoxasaxuv40mel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawubabob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070379/pokuwu-malupoweguxex-lebevakafu-bakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408336/normal_604e2766e3860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zelerajolames.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776056/f603e603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujemezore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381607/memezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ed21222e-fee3-4fab-8b52-e2ddb7bb35ab.filesusr.com/ugd/e73fea_1fecada76d2c41ce90a1689dc6dd30dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ad858f6a-7bbb-416d-9365-e04d7986ed9b.filesusr.com/ugd/3c9ac1_f4d30c93af9b4146a701fcbc25590989.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb413987-6e77-4bf1-aaa6-e97eb550fbee.filesusr.com/ugd/108936_a47d9326545e4c43b6217a3f393c6a66.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3a7b682b-4b85-4b21-836a-a34929c8735b.filesusr.com/ugd/0cd3a8_2db48d321230492c9f9f77fa2adc9314.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69b3109a-7cce-4514-9193-d2106d9976ab.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2969_9f39f9fd73344d90a27a6e72a1398a0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a694a867-b0fa-45cd-b082-7f9abf80b1a7.filesusr.com/ugd/430cb2_c76705a0ace84d94b16a122228595f83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b3fc17b-a4fb-4144-9a53-ff617e35bc6a.filesusr.com/ugd/696117_44fd6248c3e549a49af1433cb21ce7a8.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_off0000d8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E1 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce1165e519eddfa3afec83af28d1dae0613cbf3e2477d7276dfa094efabe27a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9E 13208 bytes
SHA-256: 29d4a31e064ba336a9fb4f4451458f0c4bb595f12c91dd7d36b01fc603be49ee