Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c5e5d88ffb5164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-11-19 23:12:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3acfda9d00c2ef28fcf9187ac568764c SHA-1: e4815b352285f211facc8371d518e5ebcf579d9d SHA-256: 62c5e5d88ffb5164f1deb81297a33d204da0426b24daeaf01c2584addbf78c13
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, including detections for phishing and a link farm. The document contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites under the guise of providing a study guide. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm and phishing indicators points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=acams+study+guide+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://vokobilozo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235622/mumodinitixaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gepobuxew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070920/df480dbce3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368485/normal_5f889952bac73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawasolasazilem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379174/3722212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riragojefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/db4b5c7062a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fupefasupemeze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315788/pubagivijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razomidubijime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134395635/e9759238b68494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xujaxivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438557/1863925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nozigofomin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481739/wisifefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481062/normal_5fb54b9465ea9.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/9bddd079-17d8-454d-a939-c1a108a2fe38/dezowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1eb28a9-e5d9-48ba-af31-d6e2f4ab5063/ludimijuxiwapuxewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f5ac943e-e36f-4639-be15-6586888578d1/arizona_desert_food_web.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/687471c7-37fd-438a-86b7-46d9ec7848b3/kexabubapivani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c512dd10-4594-41b7-b25c-6bc708a03658/xadawotipemazulopoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60795b88-4ef3-4579-999c-fd5948bbda70/8275383682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0fe47b8f-f3e0-47dd-a2cf-d16d7d8e2e8c/tareas_para_preescolar_2.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_off0000b9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9D5 5560 bytes
SHA-256: c7b3a9a0240af6ed9a819a98b96bea99e2402b11b8ad34b9fb2849c2400cad10
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDC 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc38c625f91c548aef73b2e6d078dbc430f5641848d9b65eda7a67dd3acc6c2