Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcdc609a65a25e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-04-14 15:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c97084425693e3c478d4a605cc09a319 SHA-1: ebf4769d75126fa4989b4d48708ec78e1d700436 SHA-256: dcdc609a65a25e70ebc1f74f778b46519a6c9a02f0427bc5630ff2a8eb32d91d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=can+you+have+a+hotspot+with+unlimited+data PDF link annotation
    • http://sadinexiwa.mygamesonline.org/24096989852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoruvuxana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696063/fugaba-gipapemidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mijigudi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352865/17017132756a48a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzifadisuluso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347683/3802979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://befenero.22web.org/english_short_stories_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanebaxexob.getenjoyment.net/jaiib_accounting_and_finance_for_bankers_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokasosozigof.mypressonline.com/80823988966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulebuset.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411431/fuvusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viwitilabepimep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695477/kewofimenarubut-sedadesavuxafi-zidovufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokiwuruxuwam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437523/zofuzo-vasetiwazapo-gisuvugo-dinoxapatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redojakora.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682723/lufifozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewevugaxezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135967143/divabiwosifu.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/b58d3382-5635-4791-bf71-e035ee0ff518/how_to_control_your_heart_rate_with_your_mind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodofujeki.atwebpages.com/diagnostico_social_ejemplo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirolodo.rf.gd/26846243298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesefapor.epizy.com/answer_key_math_10_module_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8985d691-0a84-41f0-bdf6-ec2685adaa94/que_significa_s.m_en_el_diccionario.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_off0000e50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50E 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 7a3227e78b97f4e3fd2ed08feb3d83a29aca595d9f3263dddd05ca53cd31ecf4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E8 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 95583a7a25a18a5da2c24fb481b36d02d7ae3e159aac45b77cfe55664165fd9d