Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a03c4738eb0dd911…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 04:24:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 2eae7b2d500fdc30f744876bee11bfee SHA-1: 2b8b341546df464a735200c0bf633231e1efaab1 SHA-256: a03c4738eb0dd911fe72d7346ed7d505e7efb8e31d9123e4c3bbd2c052aad729
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. The primary malicious URL observed is https://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=e+spanier+algebraic+topology+pdf. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and the ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection further supports its classification as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=e+spanier+algebraic+topology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412887/normal_5fc953302e932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexixare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134354354/1239239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeloxowew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134330257/powazotupu_jepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siwosupegejolop.medianewsonline.com/75193724939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415308/normal_6041aaf8e23e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piworanup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681558/816281ba8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firalikagux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740609/feretel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renesixedobalew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969137/dejowuputumovig-zudidafugenuna-limowefe-zofupanuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0595d09-7136-4e0f-b697-d4c94be212fc/jofoxelivode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9e79cf2-7c6e-43e1-a463-5a8c31eaf0ec/fantastic_beasts_and_where_to_find_them_trailer_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likutolejit.onlinewebshop.net/vofefurudifapemonewazedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zulezov/39753684088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb63f6c3-0bc1-4e21-bea8-f1a23535493d/bevifobekanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e273ee18-5ae5-486d-95b9-77061d146fe0/nipopigesatovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jopomodilamego/carroll_diagram_worksheet_year_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cafd285c-8130-475a-a523-ec98e4fa249a/wafewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tevomenil/checklist_template_word_doc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sepawi/mawodumugavema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f68fd96-e309-402d-88b3-15a15d08d258/29794345845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c805d0e-c574-4408-ba8f-d634e993cfa5/2000_gmc_sierra_starter_wiring_diagram.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_off0000e02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02B 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 20f89b0e6116972e04582464b73751bbd0020417096a2570a4b046f1092c6ee9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23E 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 56754d019dc2975375daecd3b12782b196844561dee52f1d4a3184196a009ba5
font_02_sfnt_off000116e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f