Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e20ba428cebd959c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-04-25 15:01:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: e35f1f95a5f8d9edbc5615196b98a915 SHA-1: 431b0a8bf5480ca1c2246f6256f5326c60f83b1b SHA-256: e20ba428cebd959c2f0698f21077199af984e7b19c86031118e661214246eac9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+learn+arabic+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • http://bovakepixoworax.iblogger.org/kugatozoxuwitozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadusulu.iblogger.org/1850954571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightshelpscenters.com/jazuxuzojovunozasdwp79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokowukaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315315/c7c4b03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightsupport-ig.com/66741813369ivf2n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesopuligu.iblogger.org/when_you_reach_me_rebecca_stead_read_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wopixidotawus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134506387/8965940.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/3996acbf-58b2-4405-9987-09c38e9a6723/what_does_wr_10_bar_mean_on_a_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/420beb8d-6149-4471-aa49-d7ef04f4bed8/47196635404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://143c7e3e-1a56-4739-9c24-5aac26b0263b.filesusr.com/ugd/28d7c1_15d9af12e543404c9c0a1d5cd69c160c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://034b020c-baab-45d1-b3ff-c950d21f9178.filesusr.com/ugd/3c93bc_0af125b9911c4b6faa6e183025e8ea74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a2ec78c-d3de-4672-b0e8-2351baffc65f/41429944766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_fd2cfa1c322a46f385eacec59185debe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f2eed20-11d6-49b1-ab64-07699042280e/remington_700_tactical_stock_300_win_mag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77a80da1-97a3-4b40-ba11-54c6d232eb66.filesusr.com/ugd/39a0fd_8e6a26ae396f41d1bb5e4d09e155a007.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e1e9198-0fe7-4103-8084-fdcc6befb8d5.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7815_fd1d37d5db894f3e8358583e10b59b57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0cfe495c-9a5f-46a1-a5f3-fb21b6211bac.filesusr.com/ugd/7aabb2_63c1ef317bf04f23beab663e1e95bb7e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b4095e1f-5e43-4c35-8b28-ff0c3185c247.filesusr.com/ugd/9cc3de_b99375ebbd774f3d89cf0ab496acc373.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4da67792-90b8-4699-bdef-2b50b2897671/how_much_cargo_space_in_lexus_rx_350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurujabarufuxe.rf.gd/simplifying_fractions_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://981168d4-05fc-44b6-871d-73371d7e8cf1.filesusr.com/ugd/87d215_0caacee066ce48678a27635e2c1ed7e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vitixageseda.rf.gd/61296939403.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_off0000ee1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1F 5240 bytes
SHA-256: bbf5ceefa0d6acc43bf4d94a39db64fdb170416be2061f4a4d7839a6d4b6781d
font_01_sfnt_off00010018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10018 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 7573ea32197af52bda57b735966b9bbb67f86c75601015df767212b0060fb37a