Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e50607fe92865c0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.0 KB Created: 2021-03-24 08:07:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e44576fbb279452c99c7fe3bddf906e7 SHA-1: 775667bb793d38dcc00c84b1c026384d53e6de9f SHA-256: e50607fe92865c0c28f2bbf5dd08695be9b05ac275908cd7a228d5668ffd9500
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external URIs, with a significant portion hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or SEO spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=aditya+hrudayam+stotram+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tujozidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694944/73dc1d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470696/normal_5fc586f161ec0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zugavugusalozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776271/4676096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitarufimoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235546/bixalokone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448096/normal_6027148da66e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384483/normal_5fe79d6b3fb10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xokebuzizo/X5npvie/56398366498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408352/normal_5fc6a9fe0fe79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/menigopas/oififgf/90879846350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420036/normal_6036344c3e11b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodikajopofibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704264/1512281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418786/normal_6051545273ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/033d8e5d-1bda-4426-969f-2a500002b8be/what_are_some_public_health_topics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a621dee-18bb-4108-ad1b-9fdf6c455fa1/bijanalikifewamuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/259dabe5-8755-4441-8170-484865fa4884/38642200177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23fba189-34fe-4a5f-ac45-123023afcab5/81076788230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c27fb5f8-9417-41d7-919b-3accddbdc947/63420786651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/605a1535-9017-4017-be60-f9374df26421/40772280802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7650211-8932-4528-8616-7f0a15f0806f/focus_svt_top_speed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc3b453f-dfc3-43bf-99eb-61285ee2458e/ridgid_air_compressor_parts_of45175a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f51e0ed-c276-4124-97a1-94c1d3b4bc00/sopadekiri.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000138cd.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x138CD 32560 bytes
SHA-256: 8164cc91bb6a464165e7296afe42685b463fbcfc6ef0e089e4fb122e5a07472b
font_00_sfnt_off000126aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AA 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 432c37baa89301abedfe5b44e8d3263b26203a42e4d679d161b3947f86fbe84d
font_02_sfnt_off000175ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175EE 9796 bytes
SHA-256: 7846725c75656b22b401e9f4574eda7bbb89eb46bd24de041350572f0336775a