Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e098f60aeeaaf103…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-04-21 02:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c90a41e897412fc8a3de71572a9351af SHA-1: 62fbac230eb95f24b995adeb3d66ffbac02f7c8e SHA-256: e098f60aeeaaf10301a9385f474ad000599ae91ba8e18ae5726fa35555f82804
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous external links, many on disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though truncated, contains elements of urgency and a call-to-action button lure, reinforcing the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=what+are+the+covid+rules+for+flying+to+spain PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383928/normal_605361743a6be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claire-irk.ru/20550873138v9ora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479235/normal_6011ee1d8e234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489244/normal_6032929164f5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetymirrors.xyz/75959910731t3tj6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418786/normal_60208bed50f31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyrelax.xyz/mckinsey_report_lebanon_2019i419f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367960/normal_6015d2b9b8dee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wibimozuj.22web.org/vutikuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465388/normal_601234e0d0a93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382773/normal_5fd1c6838a14e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokio-2020.fun/wosomop93f81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403129/normal_602b8a72b12ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381297/normal_6013343b3534b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inmyshtangen.xyz/what_does_the_bible_say_about_reading_gods_wordew0yp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470968/normal_5ff3aa06e83e1.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/tiduro/adobe_photoshop_cs5_crack_mac_os_x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jarirotexab/jozozijebefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/41d6d666-0389-427e-80d2-a1f0dc2f8963/1776333194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puxajominasunat.epizy.com/august_telugu_calendar_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/480ce289-dc79-424b-8cf3-3b85d3a8e35e/95352220188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bezorito/kogivufelojegulejupuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lijulijowivaze/zabikugetelewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wesokukukidi.epizy.com/3d_modeling_software_free_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xisakazelelinim/60973411764.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_off000155f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155F5 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 7f07fea4a142a8aa5f1a2154431300c63a49455fe6ba1d0d454500360e07edfa
font_01_sfnt_off00016911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16911 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 49f84a5f4d76e702a114303237c60b96246dd23b22f1a01014485f628a2654c4