Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8a5db8e2a355e5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-02-02 12:47:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: e120df7a1f8f503c692a8c671bc2234b SHA-1: c305396a8bdd51c49b82190ae2116c68c1148387 SHA-256: a8a5db8e2a355e5f362d3f3265f138cc850ac2546f8fc0174e9bc87ed150dd88
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or spamming campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/aws?utm_term=ames+performance+gto+giveaway PDF link annotation
    • https://dopitusorotid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738794/34f7617615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felipivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856333/nazivugi-gamasisub-gorurox-figonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jadojojipolukot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135337887/baxanulutobo_tawedixuvu_ritisejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikalejewop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135341852/2553082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boduburul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134654649/figotowuv-tawuwanapozena-zizuvezudam-diminaligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421335/normal_5ffbc3625d488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zubikazosiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134761183/532885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puzelosepe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317481/1458135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478146/normal_5fd1603021038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lagomumudalo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681699/685ed9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizavurodetilu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134391156/43619c3908208a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebizenif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874023/gepinitesimelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwuwewofopalun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097592/titediferovurijiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoriforibeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071072/rowaxuleg-ziporulux.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
    • http://wirirarosutuki.epizy.com/98371268110.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_off0000e3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D5 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 2940212351b9b6e6f32f3c5dcc3b4ba26afbdf64cd94063fe557b3f0cd203727
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F2 11712 bytes
SHA-256: baae7aecec1d7ca7ec111a36927b50fa8edf69036bf1c52702e8cf287134b6ae
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361