Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc0d6fe1453e018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.0 KB Created: 2021-02-08 19:48:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 30ccec4f7d3435eeae5771a64fb7aef4 SHA-1: c0e61d7099bdff55abe775b53a415b31ff611a58 SHA-256: 2cc0d6fe1453e0180907817f8c483fd936b1ab573ada4d23a29253331df95db0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains or subdomains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/wb?keyword=what%20is%20bootstrapping%20in%20bioinformatics PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/savageven/agihehc/kadilezutudozagezobovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunisuzafi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311694/sufoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bibilofefi/jbid0Fl/xesowonudezafaxudasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guxuboru/idggitY/precio_del_pase_elite_free_fire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakajifovajopif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607230/loxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamedv.design/theological_books1bad1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mutalexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871787/nupixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenewalewufubin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135329800/66ca67d457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391896/normal_5fe62520293f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabanopovofed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453130/zadowajutezexomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setofexperience.site/let_me_down_slowly_piano_sheet_easyu5zv0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrighthelpbusiness.net/rujavekogubunuzva8bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463277/normal_6009fe5f7b093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lozhobelir.space/wire_secure_messenger_review6uo06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xumusuriwo.rf.gd/22051972533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutujetis.rf.gd/jipuzixapuvosudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxotenudiwuzu.rf.gd/sample_affidavit_of_support_form_i_751.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015f27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F27 5552 bytes
SHA-256: f7447aba2ca9188066e9c75dbeebfe7a3f276d035f81557f104205d120215ad3
font_01_sfnt_off000171ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171ED 13644 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3199ef5825973862b8f49d51e7f3e81aa4d8ac822d0395ab72a7b0004508c7
font_02_sfnt_off0001a01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A01D 16476 bytes
SHA-256: c9a141d14bbf9acf6f4fadcc39ceff0f39dacb0cc7359eb0237d0d8212e92144