Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9011a7c8411ee967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-03-09 16:34:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 55d690afbadb7c7156a80d7b2664269e SHA-1: 980171aa197182d08a854b1a5ff65be1e70c3a7d SHA-256: 9011a7c8411ee967fd242aa46e56e108dfbbbed679c9f8ee58fbe4176195abfa
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. Heuristics indicate it's a fake invoice or payment lure, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest this document is intended to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=senior+accountant+cv+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cardio-natural.info/leviathan_extreme_guide_ffxiv93nhj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403824/normal_602ea13b0b4ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4530457/normal_6017320f70a1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mon-cmbretagne.best/tokyo_ghoul_temporada_2_espaol_latino_megamson0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460446/normal_603c5bc5e3632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367631/normal_5fff7846d0cde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380068/normal_600df1e3d42c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420592/normal_5fd86b594c491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413563/normal_5ff8939ca5eab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393511/normal_5fccae0cd326f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423471/normal_601ef2089a543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usene.xyz/piraxokigekibatopobudzdbhz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://money-team.site/cdc_zika_virus_guidelinesa7i4p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigasheff.xyz/wisobokimegejikunasaxobdbbzn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ba789de2-c385-43ee-b32d-a34c698d1993.filesusr.com/ugd/b7082a_62bf31e8902d4c058805edc1b4734991.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f2fb29c-15f2-4b08-b525-3eb91a7f0a41.filesusr.com/ugd/c3548c_fe0a0e6fdcdd498c8b685dd7418f105a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/833db85b-da2b-4099-9fbd-6c5d5907b5b9/how_to_learn_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f0532cb-4478-41f9-91a1-cf277c4732ec.filesusr.com/ugd/8acad3_5b48d2ade1c84da68a638d032346d45c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acf30a18-8e1a-460b-995e-aafaee9a6b76/10865928750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/266a4271-4563-4929-9eb3-21a0aab087aa/dovufaloduwuronolejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51c34d14-e712-411e-856f-74ca7cd7adc7/9210980009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1c0a6ac-8a25-40f6-b9ea-2df6c3a01c95/53457567647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa3bb5c3-2bd4-4791-9e2a-6e31d5009b04.filesusr.com/ugd/60e703_d3dc5cbe84674daf88e1867ff8b859a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce3ef070-d109-4a07-82c9-1810722bfe68/the_5_elements_of_effective_thinking_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d43667ad-3c20-4b4b-9856-5c204de35778/fofelesufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ed31e43-02da-4eca-a08a-acf3eb714906/date_renaissance_franaise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6536c5be-fd83-424f-91bc-967377cbb10a/poxovawizadezazoret.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_off0000eab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB5 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 39b278e4f4a63fa099a8650abafb55ee90fdd7a25739403e43235c9e3f44d35f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2C 11488 bytes
SHA-256: ac5e5fdaf44da68e0c65d393a35425f3ffb1c3996c1271bed3e51fce4a9ed5a7