Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7fc772fac586951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-03-13 18:40:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 583480164b8220f14771359d284c5689 SHA-1: b77ad7130a12ad3f418c51ad77cd79e5fd55dd37 SHA-256: a7fc772fac586951ac18ed709d753f0b7b6deca25414c94808da2fff3a671522
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a phishing lure, containing numerous external links to potentially malicious or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data rather than user-readable content, reinforcing the focus on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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://baarspo.ru/wix?keyword=capital+cursive+a PDF link annotation
    • https://pilonalamajavex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164122/degalezitubobifezolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vofamebibefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694090/mazapeweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogplaktnc.fun/steady_state_vector_calculator_with_stepse63hw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxawoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745114/db253a3dd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandeepsadyora.com/cross_platform_browser_plugin_developmentn53de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groshyk.site/rectangular_form_in_polar_coordinates6mars.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-supportcenter.xyz/social_science_research_meaning_and_significance6hrga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insurancesouk.com/troy_bilt_weed_eater_spark_plug_replacementiorms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://mutifitiwexo.epizy.com/forokuteduzoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5176a5c2-87fb-4df9-ae0b-2d893972168f/bikesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a9b1041-42dc-4da3-a12d-27b1d42b747d/lifetime_54_basketball_hoop_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabotiwufonego.epizy.com/17933606207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/654f3b48-042d-402e-98c4-452098dbd7e7/amharic_keyboard_for_macbook_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72d3ee93-e75f-4329-a202-89822c4f6141/34345929405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datufubizut.rf.gd/jasijegazanemewofupisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4190185b-ae95-4e00-bb79-13413ae878d7/gantz_g_manga_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c7827a0-49f8-4653-9410-46ca92ea4975/singapore_math_grade_7_placement_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapexiw/xegitexejarigatozidisopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falejogajir/mujipewuvawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wekibik/brother_hl-5370dw_toner_reset_sequence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/somamere/associate_android_developer_2019.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2F 4892 bytes
SHA-256: ae4c2c132e43577f2aab39df4fb665ecb52b197a51b3b16fe1b91cab33706b4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD7 7972 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba7f8379401daa0ebae092c71977d26c5bc9de877a10d881b869f36a4f2ff64
font_02_sfnt_off00010083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10083 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8003350753fe3a6143857c457fd19568f02ee69f2daa3f7a17f19f3cf8d31a