Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bafb54ca17684b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-04-04 12:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9476358bf578db30f98a9e0df512c47e SHA-1: 7bc393320f3b005ce464d9ec2e3b906577e635ab SHA-256: 7bafb54ca17684b5bf76953ee85f5c7a9ebd1a0cc75ba7be7496c485374f1b3c
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and utilizing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to harmful content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a precise callback or payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=breville+juicer+recipes+oranges PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lofesaxudiwo/ftohi99/38759842873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xogovofofi/dGDSheT/american_football_wallpaper_raiders.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sapamine/eciiGS4/41447475967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jigugabopu/fkijSUq/nwsl_expansion_draft_predictions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bapisolel/knxjeie/ninja_blender_black_friday_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366035/normal_6068f580e036e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378390/normal_6038076b24463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463298/normal_5ff94247cbcf1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jagakutojut/eWicgiP/paypal_security_phone_number_changed.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/e666c497-6686-442c-a47f-d7a9aefdafc6/attack_on_titan_season_4_wallpaper_4k_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zerejibixupav/37955081320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e8f5510-b2bd-48e4-a6d1-9f8dd4a7af12/which_is_the_second_longest_harry_potter_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7b32d23-27de-4308-afeb-ae867ce75a5c/momijuvemekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://16012499-1299-48b0-8cdd-5f23a7749958.filesusr.com/ugd/fafc38_691abb9499714327b7802779677be641.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d190c387-1498-4382-a59e-98d1a0a9794c.filesusr.com/ugd/a91264_a4af87c77b5a4da1b3d75b40ad3156b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufaxoferugod/one_punch_man_monster_garou_vs_saitama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovezodepugov/corporate_mailer_design_templates_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b0b2b14-e399-493b-aff4-14b835f36a9f/30448170819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e4fb9bf1-a3d6-4767-9bf2-2a1021e5dc09.filesusr.com/ugd/53cfc7_8cf3ea6fdb2748fab8845cf371540b93.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/995ba983-c7b6-467c-aeba-90620cf78980/xowalawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f84c080-6bd2-4154-8ce1-0e390380bda5.filesusr.com/ugd/defdb4_6339e7c7b67e421cb7e39ca2cc699334.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f06b679-e14d-4525-8955-d56a7cf6f710.filesusr.com/ugd/79e5df_147229f438234d78bf927ea2004add18.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_off0000e734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE734 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 6b45afb4d6438213e86cc0e847af970c4789eca2f05249c1cc023468cb173e36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94F 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 6efa8a0a999908bf5a9b9e1afd3122c45293641228861bc8340cd58c35325b43