Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba347ca1c7de088a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-14 04:57:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: ef7ec32b32426167e3a4afb0f66e27a6 SHA-1: 9848178584f731e5a108461c2ef66f062efb29aa SHA-256: ba347ca1c7de088ae35c66d434439a61492f8162d0c8d64e5b55dceab946b649
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through the linked content. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of external links points to a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jumiwimov.ru/award?keyword=convex+optimization+stanford+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nexojavadu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775828/8888786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxulesajoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438427/2786780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadaxoleda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311928/sarom_dofopepevow_tepatodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adminhalil.com/gabaluxiporfhjwh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayzcommunity.info/groupme_black_and_white_iconblzkr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daradila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438164/wifizeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neruzubegakakew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017499/9963267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dehydratedoriginalgoodness.com/kenyan_criminal_law09chd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nipoxumafoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134717148/suvabini-supevozod-wunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowiwadigomu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018048/b7fc6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gebuhrenfrei-mein.com/bear_by_marian_engel_freessr48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itdiscount.info/fuvozekugalewikule3l11p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherrypimp.online/gisinadifupoxibilubw3eyl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8gusevshop.website/jewexelagudulovipemuxituvakze1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4kuhd.me/80223967987b7t7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuzimisadu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135319831/gosoroxidedoguduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavarivaemvmeste.ru/40433563188nd5u5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zesamoa.online/can_a_9mm_kill_an_elephantht8mg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_8978b601c4504e928eb81e6987effb6d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b5b764bc-4fc6-48d7-9a4b-423a4d05f225.filesusr.com/ugd/3f2390_1a1622a65b074c958432fd89f885fa7d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e691ad07-92dc-45fa-af10-8929b4045ede.filesusr.com/ugd/87b9a8_eeeeea1fc6444f98aa3a4aab7ea229e9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://24218389-b518-4ca3-8548-65eaf758daa4.filesusr.com/ugd/c836c3_f20035f90fa74e24a0ada9c26251f1e4.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000efa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA6 5236 bytes
SHA-256: b57da136db6ec8740208017e3f9cce286800e334caa240560c90a9a0f2850ebc
font_01_sfnt_off00010170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10170 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 162d6974195751601a547c928138f80cb2209888481cafa50e64b17bbe87d860