Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2697ca8477c2b16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-05-24 09:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 1f2381bc3b430191e10b3a7ddf151820 SHA-1: f0c7a0d5e1f94a9633e6b862d760c9439852822f SHA-256: e2697ca8477c2b160d8c193e36898b47fc82f630f5ee1d2115fb5971b9ef5d79
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=is+there+red+tide+in+florida+right+now PDF link annotation
    • https://gavivexov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134667590/54c086d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopetozu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507327/zugawenekekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486566/normal_5fe33fb038828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374545/normal_602869b2bc209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379487/normal_603c7d2785ac5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wekupadafar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315244/2b1f672a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426408/normal_6014323cddddd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gebogunuwol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134732963/zasasokidotofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369173/normal_6038c563d4325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488092/normal_6012b982b1919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485454/normal_60208882486d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394060/normal_602906bd62c7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384154/normal_603a504d4a7b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridoxaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134703098/e9901af4687.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/3da10815-6110-48f0-9cd3-f671c2b8d38e/thomas_merton_zitate_criminal_minds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95911670-d1a9-4371-8e2b-af82d8e9094c/nimefebetenutevorawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72fd69ae-a94a-4e70-a906-d086844a15a2/list_three_common_characteristics_of_living_things.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mivokozibu/48003392991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zeworibuzoza/56283343349.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_off0000ef3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3B 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 7669aeb28e22c7e0ec481bc8ed1e1eef32fa21ccbb21562665d9231ac5315cab
font_01_sfnt_off000100ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EF 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 7402c27a6364f721138dca284b3d327d55e8e3ebad71dcda1c68cf55cd74b075