Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3e7254d7356fef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 02:24:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 5541e58c0ba75561e83bfc0e3c1515db SHA-1: 52dfa0cc0adcd871df2e28ce61a09196c02e5555 SHA-256: d3e7254d7356fef3938cbd36492f1d4bd276bab46e17b4365f25232e9ea85911
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'SE_MFA_LURE' suggest the intent is to trick users into clicking malicious links, potentially to harvest credentials or download further payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://golowaki.ru/123?utm_term=florence+duomo+guided+tour+and+dome+climb PDF link annotation
    • http://dosujojori.22web.org/barorreceptores_cardiacos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xawowonulop.22web.org/difoxovoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemezixogasowed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637562/sudamemojojasaziwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunakevogipo.iblogger.org/30420438511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mufajaku.medianewsonline.com/the_college_panda_sat_math_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzomabavima.medianewsonline.com/jejavefalabezorutemige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekomitigukajar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135345412/1015433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaxusozavu.sportsontheweb.net/55544802639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedilinosur.mywebcommunity.org/handbook_of_fixed-income_securities_pietro_veronesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojuwakuxejekur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347713/tokujusavifugavibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetebozo.mypressonline.com/64860700873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tujubafi.getenjoyment.net/wesirovavezozobepozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nudekebe.iblogger.org/arboriculture_fruitire_en_tunisie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d0275d90-c5b4-4c72-b581-d0e2b62fc6dd.filesusr.com/ugd/ee54da_e2d2cd3a222d4411b595de072b7b5da4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://somesituziki.epizy.com/zasugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d200548c-9ef5-4cdb-9ffc-c407541fd6db.filesusr.com/ugd/3254bf_45b49aada69f4571822498dc81547308.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a2c67b61-a01d-4053-b7ad-f1487bca8054.filesusr.com/ugd/24853a_bb8f9c419e5b4482945df4e70dd2af2a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwukag.epizy.com/puxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revuzulikasulo.epizy.com/vodunusugarafuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://297de083-771a-4730-a3b8-a2afe8c7d209.filesusr.com/ugd/47424f_f66d149580114f3ebe98bc76f449a816.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tupaguwojisese.rf.gd/17315939378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wexuboguke.epizy.com/79185099540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuvotawelotito.epizy.com/genie_garage_door_remote_control_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ee7d0bfe-f268-418e-8fca-460068e6a462.filesusr.com/ugd/e3c460_0afbb4914dd0481e8116cf3182d633c4.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_off00010211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10211 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9b9620060a5284914f8e10b4a700a8a4cd44a99fa0dc4cb05074e7d3faca9c
font_01_sfnt_off00011393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11393 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 45bcaf7234d3bd5bbbf0813c5090338253ccd9a6bd613bf6bb266d41eaa500e4