Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ef4265902275f31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-05-29 16:48:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 07d4d3011ab50648306f2824d0b3ddc3 SHA-1: e42055cb902d22deaad7c9e56105cd9a86e8537f SHA-256: 2ef4265902275f3181b0c66760723ce97addf9a8f81094f762c7ff4f816850dc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary lure appears to be a fake free book download, which is a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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/strik?utm_term=islamiyat+book+pdf+for+b.a+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474759/normal_5fca9cacd55ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopifabuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134693299/tokerawafilafokapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367622/normal_60334bb73f3df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486221/normal_60672e374c828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedanolelixavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305263/vunora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414167/normal_6041009a5c815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupizesave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581048/9942139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422658/normal_6060935052c9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419204/normal_605898a3b5060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478414/normal_606c8fee616cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4416810/normal_60b108008c512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malibuvebejonab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524684/setipo_viturisesaramud_rimujuru_kenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455659/normal_60438d325447f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupadosizekibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597568/witipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446016/normal_603c20403e85a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485801/normal_6043353de3256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379476/normal_5fc62c175905e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403271/normal_5fd7c17a057eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gozaxuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134612917/da6db53116cde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445558/normal_5fcd64969eee6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/353fcde1-708d-4248-b707-0f86d7e543e9/how_to_replace_battery_in_emerson_thermostat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c69c86b-15fd-4e1d-8775-59759d7595af/leather_knife_scabbard_patterns.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_off0000e1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D2 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 6d8d2399f49b102a406aa3eb5319d793878c4f45d33fc87b33dbe1ae341c5aca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B8 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 439554f57deaff19b93aff52a086035eb61769a8f6796408bedaa547c2ae2810
font_02_sfnt_off00011972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11972 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 76c5081e3ea6258913395508e3258393c7f0af01518afc76efc2478e6907cdea