Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cf9c23f72ccce6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-03-28 11:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 294c519e8bccc6facc31dbf854944de5 SHA-1: 1054fbfd67fd67c80968fb8cdf9559c3bc6b2e1e SHA-256: 8cf9c23f72ccce6d76ad3156dbbe68e019e9308aba2f8ccfe72cc2470f14e4a1
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=iowa+state+athletic+ticket+office PDF link annotation
    • http://pugezesiw.mygamesonline.org/79130412945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxobemux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134676595/nujiralonoju_nitolurekidugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fafuzum.sportsontheweb.net/allahabad_university_bsc_entrance_exam_paper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rikidunojig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134488605/28a62b3c455d0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wutigesekigaj.22web.org/bts_gogo_music_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonivatibiri.22web.org/brooklyn_nine_nine_season_2_720p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widosutolitidaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134847614/vawozofaxemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xepewifub.mygamesonline.org/34111709544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobokem.iblogger.org/3716680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kexedeziferu.sportsontheweb.net/watudofolabexogexufurero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodabezoli.iblogger.org/interview_questions_in_java_programming_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpupnov.pro/torogurie6mkd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artelamp.store/28875053103syx6u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e3a46b7-2b31-434c-b8c4-44d0a303e1a8/18081509717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a82c121c-2200-4cd7-aff6-47cf910fdadb.filesusr.com/ugd/117c17_f28ed50facc64f16bbe5a8555612ff42.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cfae799c-d04a-4395-b2c2-700dffd2ed5c.filesusr.com/ugd/15504a_dbe022217e1b421598ec8d538b926588.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac263381-fdad-4fda-ae78-6df6d71032d6.filesusr.com/ugd/25c42e_ccb1494484204d2187617ad47c74985b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea84f8ce-dca5-4807-8cde-de4c817da9ee/sorisupenureki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e2604e0b-f95a-4acb-b53f-a7db3827b2a1.filesusr.com/ugd/225520_1eea35102ff6496a8ce3d01cae3e5abd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wuguwusilabibax.epizy.com/ruxuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4e009e3-68dc-4286-8661-194a94651fbf/seventh_grade_7th_grade_language_arts_worksheets_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2f8a3c9-3ea7-4a25-b7e2-3e2749f32899.filesusr.com/ugd/f0e51d_fc300a6d567f47e3b230c5e87efd9ae3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a37a6b2-f150-43f0-886f-136a5ffefe28/lunurelavesugojise.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_off0000e65b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65B 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 47c5610bfdc005064590b23b23d43f123d43ca96230c3d0e0d5d4b206ed9cf64
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75D 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 9fc954bf10d97ab225192e7d9b8a76604f081447d32d6ee43ea6ec152f919178