Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe66b5b73c43332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-02 15:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f47b08f8d807094db8327dcc8552ad11 SHA-1: 796867f5cbb0d3736bdf58206e69b13cf842f02e SHA-256: 8fe66b5b73c4333244737d52b6232ff85c26ab99fca8b3d7e24ac49894a80e4a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or SEO spam campaign. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains like Weebly, designed to redirect users to other sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to a syllabus, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://synerhu.ru/pbw?utm_term=cfa+level+1+syllabus+quora PDF link annotation
    • https://zopewurexolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134519391/demex_lovon_fojeleriligob_gimoxukegabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodibafabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738722/7160112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matebafezit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592398/6fef3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vopilexazum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740267/jumagojifeva-fefowibu-givuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetexugosopaviz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738505/dogimijiw-fulelotosawufef-zukamopeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nijasofefovo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719995/5242324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nudusomezuriful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387444/6095505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nebegixemavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134359619/d0b0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388619/normal_60058d91c56bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fekanefitogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340372/42e13f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421464/normal_602d40f522c67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizozuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134732263/975b53dd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nozirurabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738896/revufisi-pokebixe-xidoxabutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462066/normal_6005b48873d3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465545/normal_606636784647e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468261/normal_5fe0dc7633309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wevapagavum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306171/vudavudufiv-tuwafebesogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawifeguviweti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302916/wixamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palukenibimel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134401756/9e5837c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wojipag.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144420024/rerelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifelekufa.pbworks.com/f/summertime_saga_mod_apk_free_download_for_android_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagorevet.pbworks.com/f/xokedodenovusupunokadapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajisaparev.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144421041/25906675512.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_off0000e1f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F7 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 7c86bbf0b104167cd496e5b0e145763eb26d0fe368f120e6e4675a72234c2889
font_01_sfnt_off0000f39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39F 11588 bytes
SHA-256: 35275046c7d836de66bec0a9beb5bf9af2f0fbd529fd494e8c08822613d11489