Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d9ec607e8d874e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-04-06 22:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 7e0e21c519ac199aa5863bc3d5662dff SHA-1: 5684ad17e3c49b5a7538a254136d65cf765c27f7 SHA-256: a5d9ec607e8d874e7e66dfe3ffebb92c349505836c34fe30229bd7b3e93d4616
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The presence of a callback phishing lure suggests a potential for social engineering to trick users into further interaction. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to execute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=digitech+jamman+looper+phrase+sampler+manual+espa%25C3%25B1ol PDF link annotation
    • https://bigimegena.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438437/b5b863ce4b71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujabowumosof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398195/wumuratowububuvamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372707/normal_601b52ef22a17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366045/normal_603ee76b5d1ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489843/normal_6025f1e69964d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5923e4b1-1c40-4277-8eba-f90589ef1626/34612306155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9794295-e6ce-46f5-9197-eb6209f1fd0c/spinoza_ethics_book_1_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badbb018-ab4e-499b-b788-960949b82e3d.filesusr.com/ugd/4f4c56_94ad0126907e46da9a1805388fe79f04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c9824107-d2b1-409e-88c9-3b05c31ca0a0/bose_companion_2_series_ii_price_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24023ed7-ff9f-4957-9286-bc022be87db1/7730747016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisapovepizaj/formation_agent_d_escale_aroportuaire_nice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a7da3e60-63c8-46c1-a846-eab7df628ed2.filesusr.com/ugd/bba345_e4b609d373b34e8588daf4713bb574e9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b7eb3c74-9f10-4efd-a612-efb7ea03662f.filesusr.com/ugd/7198c1_54308ca95e094c40914c5b42763ddb37.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9a132f0-acc9-4761-b7d8-38025aedd849.filesusr.com/ugd/5c71d6_2984f92751b84956a765375689deda3d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d5fb4b5d-766d-4e54-ab1c-ecc61d2b7d82.filesusr.com/ugd/b0c8dc_3fb3c0a3ccdd49c1b10921fa516ae8d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://307a23dc-bb60-4906-9a68-69e45957aa19.filesusr.com/ugd/d2057d_a6b1e91981d145eaae7c536eb8580103.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ede8a7a3-2377-4e09-926a-401222b31c25.filesusr.com/ugd/81c89d_5adeac7ad6e240f5a59505717b478f31.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/183469f2-d488-4280-a369-24a0cb80c964/integrated_advertising_promotion_and_marketing_communications_7th_edition_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kijelopazekune/cessna_turbo_210_performance_specs.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_off0000de70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE70 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 7ddd06b20a6cf86f8846c14f1f8ceb73f60055e817a66559b87d55b9f1407c51
font_01_sfnt_off0000f13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13B 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 66fb56f7eb0fc966e8af4562ed608a944621462f9147c360404894c9249905bd