Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35eae0ab3972e40e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-05-07 01:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b27eff72601b9fb4c1696af3db4734ff SHA-1: 1fb808cbb90824d978c5e0453b510fabce9c76c9 SHA-256: 35eae0ab3972e40e90f17c27eca6d425b1545ecad394c6cd3a698fb30d56da98
206 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, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of a 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to direct users to phishing or malware sites. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+ice+maker+samsung+side+by+side PDF link annotation
    • https://pofitefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134617546/7843043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutimupon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134629179/2f2c26ac05ba1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universityru.fun/ruvinejepzwn7s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meluwirukumipi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483006/pamuzajelitaxexemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obmenkalnr.online/tumatubomebopudamudak1uwvd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidatulo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815220/a1ebae5ab94ded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sixixufur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303163/9044424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faniwavuguvupos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134478403/7832bf63a31ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgathering.org/deep_learning_a_practitioners_approach_githubwc5zy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wokoxulepimam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438011/gofataguputi_telokoguju_pawaworilowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tobojelusiwi/iphone_alarm_clock_sounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://09d56968-2ae9-412d-ad86-e67dc63a1c23.filesusr.com/ugd/e8b91f_7933e49bd4e743929c8a87fbc4897f09.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8fc6a14-16a6-4721-ac97-ca2cd7e03789/fipawejejasalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d747708e-3833-405e-9a7e-2a0cece23381/remstar_pro_m_series_humidifier_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/feseni/jehovah_witness_funeral_program_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4be8a7ba-6c9a-47a4-99fc-a5961b41a404.filesusr.com/ugd/132250_7ea323800099443a863efe5bbf56a2ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sowewazulejewi/gijedizivigoradubulowazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a4c341d-9af7-4f89-b48a-1b926ad6ced7.filesusr.com/ugd/dd6616_864bec48d45049dbb6ef356420c583ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://535a9070-e28a-464b-adc5-c02ad08be00b.filesusr.com/ugd/9df9d6_dc9cef07a6e94ee79b77a2744918d5f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2dc0326d-ac60-47d8-bf46-f2dc9d334570.filesusr.com/ugd/21b4a7_a3cb364114b14261be3e175c782b39d2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bd4c03f-b6ee-47f1-9aed-7b603268d0e6/xijiremomupetajumubixulep.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA43 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 209c7d3292c7a899205144ee1dcf4062a6bc93adfa35c45d3ddde6ec185a92a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3D 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 938988dd05eb5d5a5891bd77add48301426553c007baaa6d6d343601a46211e4