Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c5e235f5fd1fb6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-04-06 13:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 52aaf9b6956ebd715f36396fba21a696 SHA-1: e86fb0e5bc241f612b7fde90dae66875e01a6656 SHA-256: 8c5e235f5fd1fb6a118999840bcdf7638624831afb375fb1fb1173b2d0ca5891
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a large number of external links, including one to 'jottigo.ru', suggesting a phishing or link farm attack. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or phishing pages.

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=carpentry+for+dummies+book PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453885/normal_6047589641576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zajujinul/VgjFr69/neruvulidosuzopanopemesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488336/normal_6031631f344a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xivovido/juChbXW/rider_dentist_cherokee_iowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/defisepeniba/dRaWQJO/residence_inn_las_vegas_henderson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366308/normal_603ec7c902589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rarirawibowo/uxjfLfn/como_se_dice_fundillo_en_ingles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labiluwewinedu.22web.org/josotifuvuvelakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1eba3b37-3dce-45e8-aa15-e51a58efc0fe.filesusr.com/ugd/89e37c_4a63011e13984bab9b2f748c36779341.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6b54b0b2-91db-43cc-88c8-bbc4f7e20b37.filesusr.com/ugd/a773aa_4b519ddbfe084993b578988e6a0c42d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zogaxemajov.epizy.com/autorun_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1d3e036-d9a1-4be1-9d2f-eedbb581cb22.filesusr.com/ugd/3ce946_9012294b75984d46b0326995639f537d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2a07c75e-e898-48ba-b326-4cccc82d0599.filesusr.com/ugd/ff154e_95df6d492ccb45fc9fac959f463dfc4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ddb281da-11d2-423e-b83a-408ecf1f607f.filesusr.com/ugd/9db61c_22a18e386216401ab3f7c94a71d75286.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f6b99bba-f064-431f-ab68-6eacb91b2703.filesusr.com/ugd/35e1ce_62be18d9cfac4029b1adc2e304167a27.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6843e3eb-5573-46e1-90a0-370cfc2b4a0d.filesusr.com/ugd/89b1bc_a320eef569954d1e8e01578d60c4a590.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://26f2e344-8444-46ea-90c9-5a893bcc2fb3.filesusr.com/ugd/b8c837_cc115def4df742b4b280af471d256587.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://441768bb-9839-4df4-8f78-dd1233b527f6.filesusr.com/ugd/7e6080_022d7bcaeb784845af1734e97dba8b37.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kotodur/apple_app_store_for_android_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zevutebulaworel/nawegud.pdfIn 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_off0000fe9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9A 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 81bbdab0d34b789dd8d9a5df3b9883b397021b1fa818fd6412a86cb26e62b2b6
font_01_sfnt_off000110c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C7 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 669e12fca0e418aa80978ad9940cc07ab798d70e9d2421ed1184214de0203500