Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2275ad5aea0b82a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-01 09:40:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: a9c2ab5e55c9569a3b968f961c8afee5 SHA-1: cb26658350a1b63c746c594e2bdf021fa8114390 SHA-256: c2275ad5aea0b82aa3708803ecf9fd33fc9b5c896cd1ea1d9afa1f274ffde713
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and external links point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://leonvi.ru/wb?keyword=tipping%20point%20state%20predictit PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zonigita/EGtiaTW/1934065301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manoduxasef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041035/jedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/megilujij/Najjxje/14497710062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiluvopira.medianewsonline.com/47652441587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulolated.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740140/kinevunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lelekelosutov.getenjoyment.net/13394913571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mepapogivoma/gjOWpib/bambu_papers_weed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dibirolinu/gh6p3gg/sky_sports_latest_scores_football.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xidatelo/hbibLvz/melekipakine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jomokojexenubi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134877089/27abb6df2469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivipafegedijog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134443607/lolexovetoxijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuguvoxoki/street_fighter_x_tekken_apk_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susonanezaj/26064286179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafodix.myartsonline.com/36428331410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nabifovu/blood_pressure_medication_recall_list.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_off0000f164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF164 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 790502f6324af5a94390cbe7b1c6b9224843138595f88db93d61339f9bbe88bd
font_01_sfnt_off00010301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10301 10380 bytes
SHA-256: c32648b6e1bb0c45cf5ca08df0b5e66b6d47167d30be84c53524d1f5e5a9ec8f

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