Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5250bcaee79e420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-05-30 20:40:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04a5d6d6d43dccd90d97de210e1a48ba SHA-1: b5d6e221c9396eccb7cb1734453afbb0860f29c0 SHA-256: e5250bcaee79e4209ddd963c995247fcd3a43322c9b1d45fdaf4e93a2c06ff45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URLs point to various PDF files, potentially serving as lures or part of a phishing campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' ClamAV signature strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=english+grammar+book+betty+azar+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449987/normal_60214d8eac6de.pdf
    • https://nefajawijar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136081949/64cbe6.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413982/normal_5fcf52991caa8.pdf
    • https://xoraxabaxid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682630/1d286ff0637ff.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461751/normal_603905f2e25a6.pdf
    • https://pefasuvut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134716349/vulopudeva.pdf
    • https://sitasujo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876827/94153.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367925/normal_605596ac13b7e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4851e370-b685-4b47-839a-2de3ba94e410/pobeg.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3d84751-3735-454e-bc4a-c48dc8c716ee/86585357568.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7e2f75f-4fba-499c-8898-dedcea8895a7/titufixupalikumefedizixok.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/656897ad-8c91-4af8-b3f4-02d443600de2/wazegawevorokibemo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62c13709-38c6-4b1c-92a1-7a84e5ecfbce/5_minute_crafts_girly_expectation_vs_reality.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec183fda-3a0c-4e21-b326-bd3940249f76/32114183162.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f5b78fc-8c62-4052-bdaa-68c45a2c3129/61400339087.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c39b628e-77d1-4b72-81db-e109f1ac516b/mcclelland_theory_of_motivation_reference.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5d8dc45-94c5-4f8e-9cf0-97de73795979/wexuwusokoxuwowebexi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9af7c84b-05b5-4f52-a49c-8f0d9532b949/how_do_i_look_up_a_gmail_address.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a694762-2e10-4edd-bfe6-3859ad5013e8/pomavuna.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e402.bin
e3d06f9a201b9d660613b46b8c032bbdec9db506a43b1bb1fdc6cf0720595283
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE402 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f787.bin
63682c806cce3136389af6b0e9c4ab4898641ee2c2c040ac7a474396791446ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 13516 bytes