Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dec6e7d096d60294…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.0 KB Created: 2021-03-19 02:09:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9ae153455f647a0bf8d7335aafa33108 SHA-1: 761e86e2c12039e58550d8691eb8a9dbd64a46f4 SHA-256: dec6e7d096d60294c2bd5866916dac522819431c3ebf58d3246f90c5265f6fd2
194 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 of which point to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these linked documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/123?utm_term=jrcalc+clinical+guidelines+2019
    • http://sellamorem.com/what_is_milky_chance_stolen_dance_aboutu3268.pdf
    • http://marinarus.space/anemia_de_celulas_falciformessnx2r.pdf
    • http://demask.fun/music_maker_hip_hop_beat_producer_key9uve5.pdf
    • https://tesegape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387632/jukupofabisusupe.pdf
    • https://tedotedonux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775879/lasuvikemozenavi.pdf
    • https://sarajigirokoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135300612/0355f1273d1c105.pdf
    • http://rowaxuxot.22web.org/carpal_tunnel_treatment_guidelines_aafp.pdf
    • http://wadupobem.iblogger.org/zabusuragovezuvubonoga.pdf
    • http://tikovg.xyz/xilutupurisozidabusamajauzhhm.pdf
    • http://pr-bux.online/car_driving_simulator_drift71tzf.pdf
    • https://wijirejilape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/32590fb15f460f.pdf
    • http://crawlmqyu.space/soxefinemoja7dg9c.pdf
    • https://xovigojimere.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854331/1358794.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudefem/mofojonadizotejajot.pdf
    • https://d62ff7d9-aefc-4ab8-8cdf-af38868aea16.filesusr.com/ugd/54b9a1_7d7fb9e6f516452ebb05e7dda8ec0a24.pdf?index=true
    • http://zivobojunoloma.epizy.com/34182363252.pdf
    • http://nuzebavin.epizy.com/ridujepabo.pdf
    • https://ff5ab256-a407-4697-91b9-141751226614.filesusr.com/ugd/4205e4_c07854f5ab4741fcb41b0541605dbf02.pdf?index=true
    • https://47e4df30-8702-49a4-8bd5-327e1546ff06.filesusr.com/ugd/379272_f1fdde391ae646c18439766fc66f7de7.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/betefowubevat/66565755004.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/diwitapezu/send_to_kindle_email_format.pdf
    • http://bobujosu.epizy.com/relative_clauses_exercises_and_solutions.pdf
    • https://083189c9-8220-4687-a375-57be19a37228.filesusr.com/ugd/909b15_5b2bd26ea24542429100af2f433f9ff6.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019b05.bin
4a93c81176ec47d0a4bd3589642fbe849ed78e39a948f4ad9ba8c150c42e7117
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B05 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001ace5.bin
aa7ae6d97a1998c416dea956b8b36026120087cd657ee8269e225b5f38798cbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ACE5 11804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001d50b.bin
70910c3f157dffaa2a054d394904fab0505b6608f800f53ba54387c75c0d040c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D50B 16452 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001eb39.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EB39 4324 bytes