Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be9ed742eff7497c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-03-12 01:10:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: e2b6c32e8fbfe521b7a67856447fca01 SHA-1: 7f658272c547601b8c6a1f3e00e2baf0d469e5d6 SHA-256: be9ed742eff7497c99519fae8479487b580f86bc6374d8e734316d8c1bc7d3a9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

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://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=traffic+control+games+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://gixapedotamerow.mywebcommunity.org/86920053556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumidaz.medianewsonline.com/what_is_portia_de_rossi_worth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rejemezurufoveg.mywebcommunity.org/tewutepisulubawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489245/normal_602b4311b3b67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xenivoronizu/j30haZ6/uncertain_synonym_adjective.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bidogefapo/E3X2fhi/3582412072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454170/normal_5febb703d8e6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suvotoruwot/hhghifB/free_download_warship_battle_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394082/normal_601b9881af18b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namafafiteg.mypressonline.com/83206325069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xakurusuk/o4Riasr/bozufagirudasamobige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/milatepoz/ZGizeNZ/photo_effects_pro_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/derixosu/2iegfut/gbc._emu_apk_1._5._34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408004/normal_602b29a91eae3.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/c260e68a-c6be-4faa-b73b-baf790eb4ced/los_juegos_del_hambre_2_online_latino_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14f16b95-40b6-48bf-a5b1-f191b37588b5/what_is_causal_factors_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eda93683-a6ca-45e9-8056-ca7adea7f1dc.filesusr.com/ugd/d655db_7d6fecf8fcba4af2a696ddd5e1eb81b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98eb2d3f-6b1e-4dbd-bcc6-bc033c8ee935/how_to_choreograph_a_contemporary_dance_solo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4bae0c1c-384b-4540-a7a3-dea3a48735c3/baby_bjorn_carrier_free_front_facing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0e8f88b9-656e-4b05-9cd8-8bd477f85547.filesusr.com/ugd/95b9ea_7dd76a69965c4637b8d13a49518ab916.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57bf9e5d-18a4-4a97-8989-813236f85cd0/26929837192.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_off0000e889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE889 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 6c79ad52dc68c242a63a54abc7ba74d56273971ebd8255534a1cc82e891cc744
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB20 10536 bytes
SHA-256: d032a0d5169e1b9e176c691a7863f4d7ea4a5e1c89b52240b51fca33a6ca82bf