Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb176894f7cda99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-19 21:46:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 4b023548b6968a0c2722a3ac7ebb5b78 SHA-1: b157e74832115900d9651edf6d35532c0e8b394d SHA-256: 7eb176894f7cda99f701521458616059f0de608a07e9597aa42c623d877be476
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'English grammar practice test with answers pdf'. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to malicious URLs, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

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://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=english+grammar+practice+test+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xozonline.ru/28606712252953wf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxutuwatojo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134625262/bavuzetebalawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/masunidupag/T3FyICq/23937265346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craftsmansmetics.com/ceramic_craft_supplies_brisbanez2i6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinerapidsrr.com/xedikokifizovifoxevapd6mt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fixemebipufuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131586/pizividugudaju-dedowerutomapa-pegotudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuimag.ru/sims_2_castaway_pc_freenjh81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gixotagokezu/S3hcii8/70349209125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vesagivara/ihbjgjd/ganakope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xumirikebixo/aWhboic/88877410373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erogan-columbia.site/dyson_vacuum_cleaner_troubleshooting_guideleo7g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wefopijupe/6iiK7hf/more_starfall_all_about_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7ed1f289-57d1-4e2a-9ee4-b64e0eb498cf.filesusr.com/ugd/13dc0c_b573469ee89d48918a1163b005156560.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://21e323bd-7fdd-46e9-a6c7-4880e76d7610.filesusr.com/ugd/0a51c1_8b3d07e4a10943c990649287d4a848e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99470c7d-c692-4648-a7b8-36ea19db2883.filesusr.com/ugd/ab059d_85541deb89eb485aada7bb0301c4bd64.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ad55601-b8ab-4ae0-bc0e-e90069072326.filesusr.com/ugd/3aca14_628f76b960844661aa5e1bbb76e4a11d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67692fd9-7157-4034-9a00-b7fadfcaebe2/computer_systems_a_programmers_perspective_3rd_ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed6f4891-9d36-4348-88ef-8dd65e860f23/what_title_is_macbeth_given_at_the_beginning_of_the_play.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1accd104-4080-466e-871a-72dfa9f1c995/what_is_the_hunger_games_catching_fire_book_about.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1e438cd7-6f3b-42ac-a97b-d13a75fa135b.filesusr.com/ugd/0c268c_c92682d40683470c9808470c60f066a2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9fc249e-2e6a-4908-9eb0-88005465a50d.filesusr.com/ugd/2530ee_fab4ce341b0f43298f1e561c38039345.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6090ae5c-070c-4b50-bfd2-11a66789f099.filesusr.com/ugd/83cce3_7be6c4afa7f44241b27405832778976b.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_off0000f29d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29D 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 94c17691e40926c08f5a9dcd4855ecb92c9cccd829828183fe91b4d5ef247d03
font_01_sfnt_off000105a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A3 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 379275a4c809c7f1b18bddeae1f68337f42e91743d256e691491307c349324cd