Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e221fbf7a27a3312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-03-05 12:39:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 6b808c6411393318f45bdf4e3827aed5 SHA-1: 95ef469a6d5a028fd7f338a0fbbe4c14688454a6 SHA-256: e221fbf7a27a33128f470cc2e370c01dd4a901f3992655b45a475939c22a4b3a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains or user-generated content platforms, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests maliciousness. The embedded URLs are likely used to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=yoga+mudras+pdf+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • https://jebasiju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381450/ladelomasumora-doroxedodos-sasonazosasake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401973/normal_603ce2b2bf467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455907/normal_601fff595ec33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nixixufusolawig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882604/vigoburi_nabekupisitidip_tadogifarujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445745/normal_6014606f47610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexugorubu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/9122549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kijuguwosaxo.22web.org/allegro_isora_formerly_barcelo_varadero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larikizog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071312/keruzur-pemep-mativexonego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikuloxituxawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410747/8707170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jevezorubik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134864628/dovijujanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477626/normal_5fdb03711877e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lozusometuzasop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134741376/gubadipesetu.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://aed022ca-8a9d-452d-9022-56a74a585a14.filesusr.com/ugd/4d548e_4458953c857941709b61cce000a1e776.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://121f8fc1-d270-4171-a721-8ccd656fc20f.filesusr.com/ugd/2ca22b_2af384909b454eb6adfb64624743cae7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vubukenod.rf.gd/uke_songs_easy_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d5cf7a15-73c9-49c9-ad57-d4f0303abb0c.filesusr.com/ugd/0d002d_f52e57f4a4c045798fa78337a8ecb6ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b08d158-0e0f-4203-9b31-e1272d977b1c.filesusr.com/ugd/086daf_8947435059fe417ab6bb85bdd8576ace.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://564fd4a8-0e6d-4f97-813a-a14a70c45316.filesusr.com/ugd/f90d28_57fd662317af422593d61cc300b25d2d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75e6d08a-b14f-4c2c-bd4e-3e6431d9d11c.filesusr.com/ugd/497a87_a5c0e9f1ea4b49dc928ecd50efebdc8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4c5ad993-366d-4b3a-aa99-9b6f56583180.filesusr.com/ugd/01e791_9a75147db6e3448d8e18e61d6731b3e8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dedb376b-efc3-4528-ac10-fc65d12f866c.filesusr.com/ugd/5f6074_7b3c4f2af6fd422989621925930279c1.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_off0000d292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD292 5084 bytes
SHA-256: bff10e670a2a73a2284b074a26b2de719d57652b56c8ff04cc45639f324c1cd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B6 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 037ad8cad98b97d83dfba89b8ba5aebe8150fd441edb07c9b405e22b9b4a0958
font_02_sfnt_off00010684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10684 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c