Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ec69f8177e18399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.7 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:01:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 7fa6657d7c5436e8f4cc4a77dce81a22 SHA-1: 5d3ddbc2e5eba888ed88226a6ab69a1455e1bd24 SHA-256: 2ec69f8177e183994b6da4009f5e1e30d8523ac4bd6618bf29f7f50884011b97
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, which is characteristic of SEO link farms or phishing lures. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=kti+bendungan+asi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487381/normal_6011dec53ce71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446273/normal_5fc9429079598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udilische.club/descargar_formato_de_nmina_en_excel_gratis_mxico_2020y8q8u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadenalia.com/custom_aquarium_fish_tank_stand856yr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375339/normal_60112e6cd94a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415951/normal_5fce40ae1a406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brettlockhart.com/color_hole_3d_apk_indirtgq2j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500904/normal_6024f8d6a5f2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489035/normal_6045dc9ddb74f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448540/normal_602965ec74df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468837/normal_6021a3a1015be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377403/normal_6035db7d03c2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408711/normal_604f40c950633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bratskpravojur.ru/metodologia_de_la_investigacion_5ta_edicion_hernandez_sampieri8ptw9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372373/normal_6017509804eaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477921/normal_5fdc60507826a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://748e6e98-33e2-4bd1-95aa-01ea3505a154.filesusr.com/ugd/704f6c_6ea478e18db844dabf35e629f11db3ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/paropabaru/46023020392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/davubewu/28828346090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eaae50f7-3b1c-4f1b-9b3c-e2a48377569d.filesusr.com/ugd/b96e41_ea2cf9dbeb1a48d3b1eacf74cf627124.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuguvoxoki/vifosabobinupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c931c956-7f53-4e4e-96dc-27d7f003ba63.filesusr.com/ugd/b80c10_b331974ffbc0472f8b719bc033b55b5a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovozenamofox/85622418442.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0001ad96.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1AD96 25092 bytes
SHA-256: c604c21c2898c2318ae585a97e6dec1c53a4b644208efc83e274c88918c60f83
font_00_sfnt_off0001746c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1746C 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 08992e12154baa021b46defd1d7cbb9763d667e4d385a551cb47c416408f00a8
font_01_sfnt_off0001862e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1862E 11724 bytes
SHA-256: 138e7ffdc01393437e208c391d46a3bbd1a16fd5fc9095791aeed4a9e3e64c1b