Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93a40d515723a626…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.0 KB Created: 2021-02-21 22:30:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 1b15cde8b3fccba93c7c9e34ffa63102 SHA-1: 1b64259a360185102797fa5039036862d4841dd7 SHA-256: 93a40d515723a626b1b61c0df8b7f26cc48c6664ac4fae3f990b5cbb8c7f3002
186 Risk Score
Tags
free-cdn-ebook-manual-lure

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=chocolate+based+cream+dapple+dachshund PDF link annotation
    • https://damozudi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776403/zakuzilijegabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zofifonanofanap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876640/80c34d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightsafetyhelps.com/2020_chevrolet_impala_owners_manualmugs6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepobiwebefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592484/sabubada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446174/normal_6032597205a8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saxeguwub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406831/8764776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zinekob.66ghz.com/83773352032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374968/normal_601dceac24394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunagejosiva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738835/gakuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukigemanewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681928/1154844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kofivenemiwelew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380814/efe949e023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393883/normal_5fc6b7e7a32e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pinavobanokewix.epizy.com/barchart_best_performing_stocks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dosalapasenow/judolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mudurixo/elnea_kingdom_guide_marriage.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001eb2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EB2C 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 6f99c5843b4b4d5513e103dcc84a72cc26c664ad3834667d9a9620e5e273edd2
font_01_sfnt_off0001fd26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FD26 11800 bytes
SHA-256: e40f67c2c9a58f051ecaa3e15215adc0005aca4ce06130318f60c2e40d972663

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