Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a08d0b8d2c00bde2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-04-04 22:40:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 46816bf7c83c8cefa75909c60429aca5 SHA-1: 0ca9c300d09202e8416f9f0334fb7c87090dc010 SHA-256: a08d0b8d2c00bde2801d930dcc33c6441488c6d128498169a2e5624879c8bd03
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to image format conversion, which serves as a lure to encourage users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://seumenha.ru/123?utm_term=convert+bmp+to+jpg+format PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459477/normal_603c888691900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469641/normal_603d31c0edc19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407781/normal_5ffb73150c79f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebojabufi.medianewsonline.com/kezogisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376099/normal_5fdc7d3486d03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487187/normal_5fd9932f15484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://87b84290-c0b3-4c73-97a1-3d59c64c3f69.filesusr.com/ugd/c638b7_0c96acfe63a24055be6b6285c8f5d1d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2903667b-e544-4972-ac7f-e5855aaa9b37.filesusr.com/ugd/2cc660_17d002ee516a4321b77c572e51c8a2c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://27420876-d215-4860-9a72-f48db0d0c320.filesusr.com/ugd/4062c2_24af51ce711440be93d39ac8e3e5b19d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://68a74d12-89ac-4a94-b826-09ad332a30bf.filesusr.com/ugd/1a0392_dc6810a07f05497fa4641863f941dfb1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89b2dc11-a4e0-4698-8387-024074bf1f67/what_does_schatzi_mean_in_german.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://67acb2b6-3e42-4063-a073-371cb527a15d.filesusr.com/ugd/a81d48_6b36c15f7a804c9a85f95b454428df82.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wowonesoribu/microsoft_project_2007_free_download_with_product_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://081e7fb2-604d-424b-9b75-a58d54a71a44.filesusr.com/ugd/abd6ea_f3732496b2144daeaecd12a03d4be18f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e474413f-ff6d-4b46-a00c-d4c33541206b.filesusr.com/ugd/ddecc0_fff322644afd4f4e83f79fa583d1f5c9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://87b84290-c0b3-4c73-97a1-3d59c64c3f69.filesusr.com/ugd/c638b7_ee0575bea7f640c3b86efc5630b48e3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85c75e05-7860-48c3-b875-e5cc4ee4c7d2/are_death_records_public_information_in_ohio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddec4c07-54d2-4645-a7e0-49c8582745af/brother_mfc-j615w_printer_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kulinisokakewi/parts_of_speech_in_hindi_with_example_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molagegivijoxu.onlinewebshop.net/24409589319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1ffb5d6c-d890-49e0-9b87-dc10fbfa49e2.filesusr.com/ugd/8bc2a6_c1924a18712d45c3944d8ed8bf8cd41e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://070488ba-e3d9-4c74-834b-445551f5513c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb83f1_c1a8d5b8116649f486a7542f004659fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mawesenasijoser/hungarian_rhapsody_no._2_orchestra_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tesodagiwor/technology_of_the_gods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/widofafane/wowurenunexusajanumus.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_off0000eb04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB04 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 4871eedccd5c7d711ca9385124e023ddee5a733b2b97a37d18448de2b4fa0098
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAB 10840 bytes
SHA-256: a14a5da286cedbc3c2203fbbe81a9246db847f7ad7e02605552197bb01dc6078