Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cc723044e379bbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-05-17 23:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 01dbcd1cbf20b776dd1d0ae10057db7c SHA-1: e790e470a70247b980ab3b0b1e7feeea9d8abea0 SHA-256: 7cc723044e379bbd7d094b594eeeb5f8d7c87682eab3c31fafb7440422d06740
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to English textbook translations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or serving a malicious payload via the embedded links.

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=7+s%25C4%25B1n%25C4%25B1f+ingilizce+ders+kitab%25C4%25B1+sayfa+90+91+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+%25C3%25A7evirisi PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487007/normal_602aa46328f52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kejojotevunujip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871587/datilovo_nawuxosow_jodeko_wumisawisagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369316/normal_605c8c37db573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401518/normal_6051ca9f9ae83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bijawodit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883407/8aef616f66dfb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faketikus.22web.org/39626213088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://disadoxamegipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527150/nemasudamorarasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407747/normal_5fe784d255353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaxiguwidun.iblogger.org/nenozoviwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370263/normal_5ffacfa000054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonibakak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346506/2208679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383304/normal_602f95bea4ecf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruvegesa.iblogger.org/26117861084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443804/normal_5fdc977fa587a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405930/normal_5fe7ec386b4be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365540/normal_5ff329a6973b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lozosotozaroxi.rf.gd/subudute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guvonudigadosa.epizy.com/32855315689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotuziput.epizy.com/ophthalmology_cases_for_medical_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijedawometuzov.epizy.com/49209866200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexifuv.epizy.com/beats_studio_3_wireless_review_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xevupabiko.rf.gd/rawox.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_off0000ed41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED41 6272 bytes
SHA-256: 33f72d8d229360a99a93396b2591de3808a46d5537045c0332fe65de10aa3dbf
font_01_sfnt_off0001024d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024D 12264 bytes
SHA-256: a0d865c4630c4ea11ed4b91fe6d0618be99a0bf99032454b9429abf0bbdd6795