Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c603aa549191feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-04-11 15:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 9e6cc28d454c8bb41976a8e7eb60cb8a SHA-1: f9d815d9de0991df35bdf524f1eb6cdaff99e450 SHA-256: 7c603aa549191feb77fbf0656ec969fb409d1d74643d8920d08a913c29351123
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting services. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, and the presence of numerous external URLs supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=finding+missing+angles+complementary+supplementary+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pemogele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324676/6784327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixunudixa/bjfEhir/the_very_best_of_crowded_house_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nudikiwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042489/1176677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamasolesodaj.mypressonline.com/4442899481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airned.ru/petedimubiremigikevakavaszbf6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xewiliwilax/PwCi5jf/wehrmacht_luftwaffe_ranks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kolokejo/SO1iRjc/smash_badminton_san_diego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vujilesozigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042384/nuditurevowa_ralijugufatuf_lusifubopute_nadulevawami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fodigedij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740281/a052003a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wugotiparo/33jegfQ/suer_toss_the_turtle_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wubowobipevoto.mywebcommunity.org/13799572553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jubawiwa/jiHghSp/3618455643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugakowizadofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738823/1791259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/potekovibe/aQHgTgf/11644601752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutebipofan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134334370/035d75c4703fce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqkaxes.xyz/94408730880rahlr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pevelefotuve/fiajfgj/nurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gabadifofibo/hdhhifH/8244123731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatidukigag/pDidadn/44315867320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxebezedigelun.onlinewebshop.net/probability_theory_and_mathematical_statistics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jisunopesaluzi.atwebpages.com/tinkercad_lesson_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabedidatifi.onlinewebshop.net/ti_phn_mm_chuyn_file_sang_file_nh.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1C 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF516 5784 bytes
SHA-256: b0eea8ec2c04e07c52546173f7a20dc088bce94b06518c5af9a2099a85ff1028
font_02_sfnt_off000108b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B7 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 50186c330d62049639cb8d5c0defb6d4d7cd19c540c16035ef283fde1cc25033