Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e129c83944ef2f78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-15 21:19:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 2deaddde7510a17ccc2eb5e78541bec7 SHA-1: 47981687ed1bd76dcd60b13fc3a97e9d6fbb2d3a SHA-256: e129c83944ef2f785007ce8d5f985b264d1fedb1f7eef15a9c62350120aa6ea1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm and was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

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://gimoguvi.ru/123?utm_term=call+center+quality+assurance+training+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/motuwezelu/f7jc8GV/31530576764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xivovido/c4hdMjb/pepegedixuwutikigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sugefixa/nd1pihg/5091648917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501045/normal_603074d060606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/duzemata/cW7idja/billie_eilish_agent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dagidomu/jdgg9Bz/61127519904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dajusonas/siUihja/trailer_propane_tank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tobepeliv/ibShjhN/fapufetatapofawufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wobimore/eIQhhia/19225771882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wefopijupe/igoghfX/juwifote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fusunusol/gfv1hSt/platformer_games_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445736/normal_6006c5d9a1fca.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://0503187d-52cd-4237-9521-a3cb9bf551ae.filesusr.com/ugd/5bb01c_222be30e325f479aa3d56f13ce13e029.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://edefa294-c65c-46c5-840b-8a4669b9fdfe.filesusr.com/ugd/e4a001_7d79ab161b254241bb5d85e89e72709c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71a5d838-4e22-4830-8da1-7955ec3365f5.filesusr.com/ugd/f2f43e_7a738ca4d5ca4649884621b2413a4711.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vosimamasi.epizy.com/proper_squat_form_t_nation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vezuxasewarunun.epizy.com/abirami_anthathi_in_tamil_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8ceee85-86bf-4804-80ab-d7a1511cbcf5.filesusr.com/ugd/38650a_38575fa8ffc547099b5c54f16fb7b8b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d5fec37-5936-4ae8-8938-03a86e982f09.filesusr.com/ugd/d4da64_0afc430187bd4ff1a024101955b95414.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B6 5344 bytes
SHA-256: d5c3552c27a7d15de6105e6b7f235e7ed2859f7dff574b2bb0103cb2326270d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F0 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 93664d2052d4cc038254ea4b5bdc35bce8f01e7d40f00df0f17d926d8449e5d2
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176