Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0cdb022521317ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-06 09:40:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0e32ac5d25775b1e7a154ab528f60ded SHA-1: e038d92927817f94b3f7c5fede4786911a7189ea SHA-256: e0cdb022521317eac8cd5d2f74dd45344f91593e495fe5d2e264d95b0e00ebdd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a malicious intent, possibly to redirect users to exploit kits or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/pbw?utm_term=writing+an+argumentative+essay+about+the+nobel+prize+in+literature+edgenuity PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494681/normal_6060fbe2441c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370307/normal_606cd434e6280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doleposaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310894/d61bb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454990/normal_60090d33737c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabenegoje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348732/jifagigibijirujutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426556/normal_5ff86e9265786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junapeborizako.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134443413/4647119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451206/normal_601396f98851c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velineninebag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608195/ffcb43e73782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416940/normal_5fdf04844f26b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481662/normal_60183a622d7b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494440/normal_606d2f055e20b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonizilolalov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458774/cb4a41b27c28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fazapezipomen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453522/7653eaf5b47b.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
    • http://sijomirurefi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144444816/what_is_the_strongest_intermolecular_force_present_in_acetone_ch2o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorunezagu.pbworks.com/f/arrival_movie_download_in_hindi_dubbed_filmywap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d5ef5ae-974c-4b3a-87aa-a13ebd86ea9b/poulan_2150_chainsaw_replacement_chain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/090e7029-e574-4bb5-af16-f91d40917deb/45162021160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://junerew.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144500841/earn_to_die_2_mod_apk_1.3_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botinuba.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144414291/g_shock_g7900a_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bea81f40-d379-479a-a9bb-85bbdf026883/64419371783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lopasexosew.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144665400/tamil_monthly_calendar_2019_free_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001024c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024C 5620 bytes
SHA-256: ee3c20e949856d8432f1a826b5a6a1745b84887840c93c8ebb021b727b3b3f5a
font_01_sfnt_off00011543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11543 11032 bytes
SHA-256: c0e6dfa9a406a9f1037213c3713e101d34ce516d9f6a299c7b206a658b75efd4
font_02_sfnt_off00013a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361