Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2cd835be63854f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-03-07 18:14:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e5aff64baef2f801bea905f05f400f7c SHA-1: ce4484f2f566cbe73835cc3882e25f6a4491ea62 SHA-256: a2cd835be63854f50d7962c8ce844b0946364ed92f4d54b431561c147afb801e
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm and potential phishing lure, as indicated by the numerous external links and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to product names and application details, which are likely used to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=speedlite+600ex-rt+flash PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jakufomego/hdCVrgf/23670921357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mafewagidimu.22web.org/raksha_bandhan_film_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421209/normal_603c3dbb44d29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481062/normal_60133739d41cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verifiedbadges-form.com/sonic_heroes_gamecube_downloadeetfg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigtittybella.com/jefokijaluzujabatepibowud2yxhy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387036/normal_601fccc52be45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413126/normal_603ee2972efe1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387031/normal_6015c5f880e5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zujubokave/xfxWihZ/tijifipevapunebusibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clipshd.design/677039366330f0bi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/besogevipadi/ih2togg/kim_possible_past_present_future_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403687/normal_5fcf7201ef0b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retys.space/moramixekozegotetkd5qz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojosewude/IUjejch/spanish_to_english_audio_translation_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pubisifibuj/Zibgjja/wordpress_login_link_with_redirect.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414852/normal_603a609024c74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lusivemewuza.22web.org/zavuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fusuzuveraku.epizy.com/geometry_worksheet_answers_angles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dc383e6d-b7a3-4e67-a88a-227fa542b6c3.filesusr.com/ugd/72b0e7_b226734627a6493a806feef72d6b79c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e905e09d-7ddd-4aab-833c-73500e817873.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c08b_0c224dacc0d94808ae2dc5d99e6ac3db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ddd90330-5837-4e0c-b2f6-9383941cd2db.filesusr.com/ugd/568e2c_8d237dddd5b24d9495a22508cdb05e10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zegokufa.epizy.com/depularotupitekobepexewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotopofixivu.rf.gd/cambridge_6_listening_test_3_answers.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_off0000e6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F3 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 9bd7a11278b76790bf8d923016c60d0aec532ff83898b0e38dc2e07ffdca3456
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA18 10656 bytes
SHA-256: d879c70d3605aa66739ca517f0fb7c8c83aca5d738cdb4fe0edb7e1824930644