Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cffe37ece450341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 13:43:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 42b44a876195ffa6baa9a38455643104 SHA-1: 552304b619de62593c45d2091ee9fca2a1c30d83 SHA-256: 8cffe37ece450341e3955fb3b2cb1c6a05d3b1e3620b2c3aff7329359b612bf8
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm and suspicious link lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a deceptive user interaction pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=integrated+chinese+level+2+part+1+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://postel-na-zakaz.ru/38187893287hhp47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sutesesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871168/sosofud-bemomibomoxifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tizevilujiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406709/2237324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikojaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134683319/ledabekagowopozijesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managerprogram.live/jofazajokiwilavunonu8z1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortuneocredit.com/94600088684f777u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jowuzifuw.epizy.com/activismo_feminista.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/68fa358a-a7e3-463b-a426-65167d5a7c9c/what_is_experience_dependent_brain_development.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dojagosixotebut.rf.gd/wubibijutobigevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2b5296f-d8ef-49d3-9ac6-faf5e1592133/lineamientos_del_consejo_de_participacion_social_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1045df54-c584-4a21-b3a7-adc20622b7a7/wusevelozumiravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/risalenefazozo/q_son_primeros_auxilios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9758fc63-114d-4427-9b6a-66d9de556640/how_do_i_do_an_image_search_on_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ebedead8-fd3c-418a-b9a5-e0c4b511d3eb/nikon_fg_20_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxewiwupir/isyoung_automatic_pet_feeder_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/460af4ef-7671-4137-b3c5-288229568219/17385503542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c797b221-66a4-48ab-9ab5-a39978f6d89e/what_is_the_role_of_planning_engineer_in_construction.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D0 22532 bytes
SHA-256: 344a203df8ad363089de3bf6ae600455980fdddc436ca26f03588edf9b72ab32
font_01_sfnt_off00013a9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9D 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 66c6773268ce1e778b9dfeda102c157140d5c7712295a5afd29c414b7e0447d7
font_02_sfnt_off00014db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DB5 12176 bytes
SHA-256: ef91478d7736f0843c82dfd6586bc957b9c4722b66f04e0c2176c64712c46f77