Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3d8101bcc2a58aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-03-04 19:17:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 56da6b6ede16d6fd07c4f4706a3cf9fb SHA-1: bebe501d2497c1adc1a528ffb8480acf39620394 SHA-256: e3d8101bcc2a58aa03a0911024a034c9d2909d9e18815597bcd170559cee49bb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external resources.

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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=crochet+patterns+for+chemo+hats PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394077/normal_60240cad35a91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413982/normal_5fce6977f0952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385197/normal_601bb39b8ea9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zixavuxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398386/ba28e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bumopabir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134679094/kiwaf_ziviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495241/normal_6011d88dc86d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xurarasetar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096945/zoluzekotaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/senuziker/Ughjajg/lighthouse_church_santa_monica_cult.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pekebugus/XjgzTK2/zekotipukupugutalidolodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387582/normal_5fcea13eaa553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411694/normal_5ff8246641a1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379626/normal_5fd2e07ac8e6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492586/normal_604111a4a61aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378852/normal_5fdac03ab571c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneitshop.info/stealth_cam_g42ng_settingsoem75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369797/normal_6017064e6c20a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramcopyrightmanagement.com/fulifawidogenakr8kn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mobirewin/he5ihiK/linibalazidepebosodonekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467564/normal_6022ffabdb787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akillidestekbasvuruformu.online/tetologatejedika0y8u2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4376088/normal_6000bdd0c03c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388156/normal_60221735643e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000102dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DD 5128 bytes
SHA-256: b5602d886645395e502b77c9f082acc7e854c844b250ff9c8b2c3981d3878e1c
font_01_sfnt_off00011424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11424 10428 bytes
SHA-256: d5558b69f4743a96de7a295bfa595c95c3fed8c1f49e0abb86bdef7904887596