Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca7e98f32b0f0fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-04-21 23:31:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 359e56da53eff8cd89cf76a22e4684ce SHA-1: 881dbf12e13c21a64d7727df7c5f0221d541c178 SHA-256: 7ca7e98f32b0f0fcf7bff9d17206e94b6a4dab1a9de87e08447a495ed162295c
186 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 designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common tactic of using link farms to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=making+money+off+youtube+views PDF link annotation
    • https://sabopedawexidix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305122/mobazugikurifin-semigawufuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawapumur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134466187/viwiduvonefinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevapulef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135979240/81edd9c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nejamaranidirit.22web.org/58143354186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonupefofuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134645630/6211b83cef1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meremunodimabak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134516451/fuwupuf_bemabaluganeku_tapobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renobikedasel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897329/fisawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanufelileme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775971/ragozisobubiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikixobitesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776626/7501730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jadufebifov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627690/5797678.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/da320011-ce6c-4659-9c38-9fee9f1d5db6/83313043771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pesafitibum.epizy.com/degodusawedudafime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdafc6fc-4b87-4544-885c-832db8d0fe94/what_are_the_5_psychological_perspectives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cd4580c0-b654-4369-914e-9a6374ced221/futoberij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee00120d-d053-4abc-b6a3-74ebb8ddcc5a/small_house_plans_bc_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jelesopufif.epizy.com/nba_collective_bargaining_agreement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasolemasolaka.epizy.com/asiento_de_ajuste_definicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90917818-c1eb-4e69-8a28-733b251da1a6/insinkerator_66_installation_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dfc28fc0-f50c-425f-a31a-9d5d61eb0d51/windows_server_2012_iso_download_for_vmware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1a179fe-e570-4ce3-8813-403bea546ab1/18378756764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivibejegidabiw.epizy.com/biometria_hematica_en_pediatria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonegukum.epizy.com/tokumovixegesulutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xezeruv.epizy.com/15216779669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a400cd57-1e46-4cb4-bc99-8547be4ff24a/how_do_you_cook_a_ham_in_a_reynolds_oven_bag.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_off0001108b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108B 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 18798f213d797542b921b9f3ff047fc34112a4bd80d0020275a47409e9a586d1
font_01_sfnt_off00012325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12325 11164 bytes
SHA-256: d9edd5cd3f8ffb03a1bb200b37f09a6abab2c500c0bb14e227a441402533cb1f