Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a72d3e48413b6e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.0 KB Created: 2021-02-19 16:45:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8e7249a6de0a0ac842b90efa0f415828 SHA-1: 8d4cf5de9fefde891c885a782cfdc2a54f16541d SHA-256: 9a72d3e48413b6e6002aa6081881743400593808f397580fd354af21f595b4e6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to SEO-optimized PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to attract traffic. The primary malicious URL, 'https://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=the+official+guide+to+the+new+toefl+ibt+pdf+free+download', is identified as a redirector for phishing or malware distribution. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' strongly indicate a malicious intent to lure users through deceptive free download content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=the+official+guide+to+the+new+toefl+ibt+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://pudijeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586696/ffbf6f25529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vumirexow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740730/3633353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petuxomurekag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874153/pidobubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukodebavuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657655/1726185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pijusutuwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407307/jumusome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowevopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872281/1d0d454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belujewirozem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681559/xibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itanah.space/66893568481wf5rn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tamobalasu/green_bay_packers_injury_report_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sesafefanulokam/text_to_speech_indian_voice_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rezugekolaba/blackberry_os_7._1_apps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nedijowewoded/28415447517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zopenave/bojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zafijukopa/xovuropozovopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/numegubowalonan/agriculture_technology_information_center.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/napoledunadigo/if_clause_quiz_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wajufifenoxuj/xisuzosewodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuvukivaxiren/wopuzosokaxoweresab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/forupokisip/64729940051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugabijenovili/mabefikimutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zatazewoz/bowers_and_wilkins_p5_wireless_user_manual.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_off0000c053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC053 5420 bytes
SHA-256: ba3e905d10d99cd249c70a1032293c6a80c6a2d97bb64f890022c5259c038db4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CB 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 0a29740a0f56807665a1bddaecc2644f0f5e399bd7e3e35c3abdd2b6014c0c4a