Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3fa1eb18eea4bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-03-30 14:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3eec22075fe85c62e87b292b75477794 SHA-1: 0e5b692cd6aa41687305dda48c2fb86fbbc1c26f SHA-256: e3fa1eb18eea4bc1611c02f242a60764c4eca6a68aa24f464f4463637ba80049
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple external URLs, including one that appears to be a lure for free PDF downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=html5+bangla+pdf+book+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392853/normal_60593a981883b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384308/normal_603b4e694ab97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414487/normal_60085c1f94d76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462065/normal_60620921837ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410201/normal_6015c95359b82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testersairf.xyz/55576499755659b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448113/normal_601dba66b722f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415300/normal_5fe922fc0df4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myfirstsite.xyz/404857310590yho4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495269/normal_5ffff59e39d15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366665/normal_600a654bbd97c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388627/normal_605dc15cea347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealica-uficiale.website/bonirit1ej8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490539/normal_6044618f2d88a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387421/normal_603f99e9741bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499317/normal_6018a57e3792d.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/8af98e53-3195-42e1-845e-cbf41578812a/mesefunozojegebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f815f12b-539f-4060-8ed9-abd2caada31b.filesusr.com/ugd/ceb2e8_cb7a668c4bfb4eac839be8ebff9f39f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://203aa715-7352-46b1-b16b-5d0aeeaa27a2.filesusr.com/ugd/0582e0_333fb8576f314728ab38d3e6f180f54b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aca56392-15ae-48e8-982c-fdf6c4ac0dc3.filesusr.com/ugd/00c070_c23ac05d7e1d403e8bf5921e9aa53009.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2703069b-a6ff-4ff9-983c-db139a8d76ba.filesusr.com/ugd/8b61cf_bf60885828b840e09aae27715f2f18ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://08b4a39d-fa16-4eaa-91be-ae90003cacb9.filesusr.com/ugd/237bf7_b8c0ebe6dd0f42eaad3ceb0fd0db10c9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f853e9b7-76c7-4d33-bb2c-575cf488f352/bulldog_pumpkin_carve.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCE 5564 bytes
SHA-256: e89e94b5769bfdabb732914b54cc24c863b7deb64cd2b35339a1dccb9d3da3ba
font_01_sfnt_off000100b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B2 7940 bytes
SHA-256: 8741b519bbd7d703b655fc2002521fe4cf3c836ff91699e5fa99878c2191498a
font_02_sfnt_off0001192b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192B 10748 bytes
SHA-256: cb2b9f0d2aefeb9945fff4feb2816aaefda3bc4da71f828467f656f2ee44cf6b