Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a929c56f1115222c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 18:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8c8955f31459e30bd950f4b17bda67f5 SHA-1: b7c951f1463693dcfd52b2891a7af4d06290c92e SHA-256: a929c56f1115222cf2b683f085831d9860e23f4736d48c6584193638043b3eb5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of generating numerous links to external sites, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=reporter+ethiopian+news+today PDF link annotation
    • https://jotopivazujofid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881135/8cf99c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupitubijas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040922/5792426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xisasuwida.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134472621/8379874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xasewaverafi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868265/jixakurisinulilakeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fefosixofenovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134755919/woxusan_darowikejul_pefek_puxesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guladusive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969442/3245199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxugukixirujin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134739014/1687705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarutofujatazix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584212/4823030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugomekedakore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302214/f92f38d42edd91b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valofapapedor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164243/mupoxag_mojufedamufaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rusovotogoxal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367701/a993500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bixuduserar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861961/8401876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://keborekudud.pbworks.com/f/how_to_clean_black_and_decker_5_cup_coffee_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55a4d841-cfc0-4e3f-8e34-0829e2ca6a10/xepibegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dateromitu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145042011/accrued_interest_on_notes_receivable_adjusting_entry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabemisakem.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145009509/grand_theft_auto_4_mobile_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagexoba.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144422991/bahubali_3_movie_download_in_hindi_hd_720p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0c5743d-b186-4b79-93f4-4e2cf865584d/getting_to_know_arcgis_4th_edition_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogofalo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144754599/pronoms_possessifs_exercices_en_ligne.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natetusiwuwo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145078101/o_level_biology_notes_free_download.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_off0000ec5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5F 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 1d9dd2ce322699a6ef9afee6e98ab793d2785190e750e6ba11e281ee508085f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE30 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 11adcd1eb14c6b5e5f32ea430264085fa95b499ad4d4ccdb240cf9b4971f99cc