Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e111c933a888988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-03-11 10:57:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: aa135177b72ceb3f375fcd3cc9f43b7c SHA-1: b2ff414a17bcd7878aed30b62b4fbea81d99f67b SHA-256: 7e111c933a888988cf22c58ac318d1a1b4476e07fad34310fa2abe89a25babed
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm or SEO spam operation designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of numerous external URLs is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=calendar+2020+format+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tryici.xyz/victory_family_church_service_times_norman_okztd7i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449397/normal_5fdbe7ad85365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496165/normal_60089ded75996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khareedforosh.com/76422708916g633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mibiduzomezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135327428/e371beccd5d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finedogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749629/sajotalesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruvatekokero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437102/gunogoretewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodsun.fun/21845332813frljt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476282/normal_5fd0586420393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413455/normal_6022b6f89c610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ronaleju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482819/magemowanelunega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365626/normal_5fff51ef33610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indital.space/gusasaximetalaxafawp0mes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixonusoraj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738646/5761906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotozefubineru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576546/gogakodimawarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://599b09cd-7b6a-4758-94a3-08a08d316165.filesusr.com/ugd/628a76_2fdc86eb7ac24b86a39b427598d5f85b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1cf095b7-1d29-4152-b82c-7733cf7ba0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/c1de29_0c2fb48377d5458d8638fafef6814288.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8b5ac0f3-2bc4-49a6-9a99-2541af31b215.filesusr.com/ugd/f2ef67_6309b9a55fdd4aec996888fb8559e325.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://47e244ab-6b1f-4ae7-97e8-86de5b619f9f.filesusr.com/ugd/e1d12c_7916dc32c103488f83dac48df605baf9.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EC 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 15e6ba541eac89e7e8949bbd1b9d6ca33dc68ffec503635f161f5f9c27053b22
font_01_sfnt_off00010500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10500 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 10b60ec16f3aa954d6ce621577468495750ec306570f7594653b47ca7f4e55f5
font_02_sfnt_off00012824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12824 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f