Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a44b71c8394dd62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-03-17 19:31:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 50ce3dfdf72c113a6a548ef18a53f8da SHA-1: feec2f7ba9a81c7cbafc901704ad1c97de0f0917 SHA-256: 7a44b71c8394dd6214e5bb17f38ba35ee9bfa8350ebb49f06cf09451d7c6cd3b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains or subdomains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely involving phishing or the distribution of further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=absentismo+laboral+libros+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedogupazib/Bchbyhc/tufenaloganomogepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zifeduwa/jfjfij5/wsdot_traffic_cameras_stevens_pass.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501501/normal_603768dc92907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feropozu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454035/jogezarap_vagezatov_pejimexufubilu_tojime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapalijika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738969/sarifewasugota-jiragubar-wewejusum-bojepikebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393369/normal_60035f5b427c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miseseren/fa881vq/25755592358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kanemili/jbmTAj4/twistee_treat_ocala_prices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vematonejos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383464/3278927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomijexa.mywebcommunity.org/zibobukevonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuguzunorofina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322364/00761da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465145/normal_6019c021406f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483602/normal_603881c9ea379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duvejiwuxikon.getenjoyment.net/gegesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://selamamoli.epizy.com/84352410163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d67926d6-99fe-48a4-938f-95006fdf2de6.filesusr.com/ugd/21d82e_5ddfad235a684b3ea326f5e77ed07f85.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7ae52be2-ba3c-41fb-8935-29281088223e.filesusr.com/ugd/affaa6_755305941b2a4af3a38a05f0a3e25771.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e1ca4115-fb55-43f9-84f1-eaf814f8c83f.filesusr.com/ugd/18122d_cc93348648b04aefbd60b2d364403c10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nefigubisi.epizy.com/18595681222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://441dbedc-201a-49d7-bb2a-292980023e2b.filesusr.com/ugd/473728_80c0027bd8d044da9937e8d06feaca6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zezajezo.epizy.com/weather_report_for_lucan_ontario_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7ef5d8b8-74ac-4e0a-b0a0-fa61ca6462a8.filesusr.com/ugd/23e9be_4206664fdfc2407bbaea79912be306c6.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000dc9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9F 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 28947f5c66aa3b5517593f36d35a037ba122b53066bb52227730872ec1d24bb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE92 10864 bytes
SHA-256: af711746231bcae74b1fb9d389b4df33a1f4c3cef24c651e6b8d697f576675b5