Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82cc26a7c2610679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.4 KB Created: 2020-11-16 13:32:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a25c50d0ffd7a4284020a6cfbbd556b SHA-1: 930042e3841a1a9119931c5844479f8edb117fb3 SHA-256: 82cc26a7c2610679a57029fdd9ba7dce77abc67958d993dbfd82be063a6fdbb8
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of the 'Latin study guide' text, combined with the numerous external links, indicates a likely attempt to drive traffic to malicious or compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=latin+study+guide
    • https://biwugina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163984/guzewefin-xuxuba.pdf
    • https://jivexine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380908/33e22bd4bd1e937.pdf
    • https://natizupasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/7609666.pdf
    • https://mekuxiwefajup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739023/3f30f6e4a31b.pdf
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/linurigaruxox.pdf
    • https://zewuxufasebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320084/2505b544aa71d3.pdf
    • https://jawokipuroz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265350/dabutiki.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liwafo/publix_oasis_plaza_homestead.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb8bc69c-268a-41d7-a30b-182330475484/58839293678.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c6f5.bin
83e2e37cd5cf0a0bc2f9d76d09fb94f16d5ef8983369c0a98d7f70b0dc44c134
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F5 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c8.bin
d392745dbe680ce3f9f9ab12870651efc269cb037a1ea37cd4008bcc8e37b440
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C8 10036 bytes