Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e26cb6a71ffabce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-04-30 23:41:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 63e00c6e6ae51ec072a8f9dab405ddaf SHA-1: a320088332e253c7a3493a196bac31c52d2db0b8 SHA-256: 7e26cb6a71ffabce1808a517be143e745abd314f46d1874a57fe6ec199e1bd31
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to obtaining a Salvation Army voucher. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, further supports a link farm or phishing campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious URLs.

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) 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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+get+a+salvation+army+voucher PDF link annotation
    • http://naturalgood.space/bulbulay_super_sabse_upar_cartoonvkpg5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufagejibuto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483336/fiselogozakazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413590/normal_600176c04b6b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siankaanmexico.com/vexokalad97q9p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopovufarake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379277/pedefusixibitin_biwolam_tawumimu_nejijabibolejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366625/normal_60394b7e12abb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comforfemj.fun/dd_green_dragon_statsx75hn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xitorudabetibom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856365/migawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481671/normal_5fc56c8007c6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mozosuroje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134456199/30b4374ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frontend-developer-azaynullin.site/natural_log_and_e_worksheetho56g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://79e8b926-cc52-4cef-90ae-68e3990d752e.filesusr.com/ugd/694d5d_2abe56c71f624c12aa7fd4e39ff1ec9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c45a5595-e979-4ff2-8de9-ba0ff8e2a2f2/ocarina_of_time_3d_fire_temple_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0e01c86c-6ad9-43de-bc04-b8819f410213.filesusr.com/ugd/73c254_e97faf149e7f42a384904208ee03dc2f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05bb5863-197a-485f-8e55-150a8134daa8/albert_camus_the_plague_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ed821ec-8078-4e74-b11b-c5cec6a88262.filesusr.com/ugd/65e777_9835200a635647c4a65682ccf399bf3d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3857ddc0-2b33-46ba-b4a8-ebef9b167687.filesusr.com/ugd/5cc0d5_c28eaa3a9c1e4d68b7bb30b83fa6e3b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33407e65-5aca-4cbf-83d7-72934b2f9b23/how_to_remove_light_fixture_from_hampton_bay_ceiling_fan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://49b821e7-ee7e-41b4-809b-d0417b8c1ddf.filesusr.com/ugd/927743_796747c3396d4ea18ae279eea3043bec.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_off0000ec82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC82 5428 bytes
SHA-256: eb6238f5c809eac9893733cbf3c7a1e81b50c6ef7c7d263778afccaccf9bc9fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF2 11740 bytes
SHA-256: dbc637f6fe743df4a6518f1607d6931b62a5e9817aedb6fc7b662e31bbd3e94f