Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7ad77a615577a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-03-18 16:39:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 89a98314555fa9812c6688cb1d578638 SHA-1: c599a24ffa5caa3fee930b2d699ed92b2548341e SHA-256: 7d7ad77a615577a4c5f04c191af026ed8739edb105e331c822fd681175789b71
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=nys+information+classification+standard PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavusiwi/ZfJsphh/business_management_entrepreneurship_surrey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosebuzixat.mywebcommunity.org/rexitufozufazimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuribof.medianewsonline.com/karid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvertsoff.ru/classical_mechanics_taylor_chapter_7_solutionshnh9y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specrazreshenie.com/pipegonuzuru68e2o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dewavasese/Hjjejfu/25575014664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milansit.space/minecraft_cooking_for_blockheadsk6nam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vonewesipan/hajiNgf/60273998226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixazizaze/6hihiey/83829310511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lemisobe/dnRgeoW/japanese_alphabet_with_english_letters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fubikopelemom.mypressonline.com/dowakexakizitaledifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wevosevob/ICLicKP/motorbike_driving_simulator_3d_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorexamuviz/i5yYoLr/talufitotafaseziwesamusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vawirir.atwebpages.com/how_to_reset_tp-link_av600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xezaretidatoro.onlinewebshop.net/56821800539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8f1ef4f7-3f23-41ef-a3d6-4e5873a175a2.filesusr.com/ugd/d318ce_7b8030cec01a42c7a1055192d42bb647.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a97be2a3-bfb5-42de-bba9-b145341b31aa.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2860_d73b1636003644019e8a06716e7cc4f8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c587f3a-4662-4fe0-90de-c315ef510687/punctuation_worksheets_high_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca0f4382-2c93-4b79-a5b1-5f15fa188096/47066779071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6d4cd3b7-91e9-43ac-92b9-205473f1e50d.filesusr.com/ugd/28146e_65a7b49717624199ac14822ccb0d8cdd.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_off0000cf96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF96 5236 bytes
SHA-256: ef79352d9329e63a9c0ac0bc2509347fae9f446999dd5c13e3f0f2c7cba5b1e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15C 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 20ce885902332c98a3bce2b00715fe2563c05619925b01ae03b8dbf5dd1d8dae