Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f139076fdc95316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-03-31 11:19:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 4fa274e7f8b9cb7a05a1ed4c3dd5da3a SHA-1: 5bdb19586b7100e23556d34a095f9c6f0dbb6bee SHA-256: 2f139076fdc95316f3e5d23a7069481913963d65c986998640ee2bf85e1e3324
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by both ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as phishing/trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Evolution study guide answer key biology', directing users to external URLs like zajinet.ru.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=evolution+study+guide+answer+key+biology PDF link annotation
    • http://pe50off.info/vans_shoes_size_guide_cmbo9rp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jiguluzufuwa/Xhcjdie/kewupekatogesatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xerujupuje.sportsontheweb.net/45010774054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuboduzuke.mypressonline.com/36151275498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santaparker.store/ikea_malm_headboard_storage_hack1pzi2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagoturuluro.medianewsonline.com/duxorusetofidelore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitikirazidapi.medianewsonline.com/27506607486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posiximuteg.sportsontheweb.net/project_budget_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fallofelin.online/bekhayali_female_ringtone_pagalworldcelmz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zadirajuviku/7je79jb/7638390484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezonekapinojel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134619201/wudoje-wiselotojefezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senevabitup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234896/ziwezatu.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/43b9b142-6fc8-4614-9418-c317e4b7f824/klein_organic_chemistry_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6f3f2bd-1b5c-44da-9091-d2175a7662ee/66431868095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a096f42-961e-4df6-8975-cb21f077bf30/legend_of_the_christmas_rose_pin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc995f4d-e47f-4b78-b471-9b1b47fe8dfb/how_to_draw_female_action_poses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5cb68f5b-68ad-4c1a-9298-9f9f5b0e3ddc/ropijolupafaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/590435e4-df1c-4e51-b564-b653b1e6d34a/39579031693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/629a8ee2-c612-49ab-9834-6ca637b1729f/jizaxujujotutufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8acebbd9-d934-49f3-98cd-b525c8520287/2014_yfz_450_service_manual.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_off0000cf76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF76 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 5a5127581f40c263329e5079e88df3633cf083cc0e70c07253b4e2ab6b69a0b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE206 10372 bytes
SHA-256: a18a4b058e546d791ac6c2df00e86388c8379408f4313d6a5cfdc92c2567bcf9
font_02_sfnt_off00010582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10582 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 4f6d6443d667672870c38ce4e1d364e29e61a0df6fd2d8217a47270b9fff04c9