Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7207caa40e1ffb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-03-17 08:14:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 761e25fc303fa48055415f4488a9d540 SHA-1: e0fa2ff547867d331a059209e5bdd05845a29800 SHA-256: d7207caa40e1ffb2747762823ff589c5b049325509a48b23d449b258b73a8ea8
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains and employing UTM parameters, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Vpn apk for android', aligning with the phishing lure identified by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=vpn+apk++for+android+2.+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://profer-opt.ru/46756437810nnv0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealslim-italiaofficial.site/tizifekalixuxexaxavau4a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedbadgeservice.com/how_to_change_my_schlage_door_codefn0d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funogefoxareso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041001/561317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayerkan.com/batulelus029wi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poopo.ru/how_to_work_out_calories_in_food_nzwgfb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italysummer.space/zuzapazobakfsb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abanca-electronica.com/adhar_card_password_2017q2iun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delayikapy.xyz/applying_economics_worksheet_factors_of_production_answers20ek1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejupatuwotim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814375/1077751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetezubusob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681625/3266570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-italiaufficiale.site/fft_spectrum_analysis_matlab0laef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarokinsta365.site/animation_throwdown_hack_iosr1t3r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vematonejos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383464/ximabixuxupitiwupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mibujisoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525757/598fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeshop.pro/vedafogobavesp6ufp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorerexeg/risk_benefit_analysis_example_aba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bufipevuril/poe_the_cask_of_amontillado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sedimeraxufi/zosawotazizovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zomuzigo/67625307287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ninazarila/soul_eater_manga_ita.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD9 3204 bytes
SHA-256: 56109dbeea5f11b7d9f369a4bc23920a3f2f2cf1a15d23f0ac0ade3ab73eaf8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF918 4772 bytes
SHA-256: 95e9812dc7cf71df1b8c8377f10cd8cef949859de4cab559d521fa8174c7253b
font_02_sfnt_off00010958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10958 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 6d85c53f3e8c8840755b68b706037173c4b301ebcad024522ec0689bfe7a070d
font_03_sfnt_off00012f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F3F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848
font_04_sfnt_off00014407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14407 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2