Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7431b686bc5b2a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-03-08 18:54:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: cfcf3db1f6770c89a3d0125c03b3e260 SHA-1: e47339e8370ec2116d009630ed76d0aa6c6b77f6 SHA-256: e7431b686bc5b2a206a999db06f525a6f86a5849172f51cd53e3bf1973d0e9c5
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam. The presence of the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or scam pretext. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://soxebez.ru/wix?keyword=lynnfield+community+schools+sofa PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416675/normal_603c2011e4a41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393883/normal_5ffb7d2b88b57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ca39a19f-16f9-469f-ab0b-65ec0463b8d0.filesusr.com/ugd/cc9b97_c4220bf53740487baa02ffcf5cdd7d34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c8a164a7-2549-4056-b209-d27d417f800b.filesusr.com/ugd/136d3d_248fd8b0fdaf4de88c6cc82235b898a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e8267f5-6380-480e-ad72-df526eaefc07.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe325_9fa3f08f5e7a403fad0e4200cefa347e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://63b1f34b-4847-450f-8d9a-4788d10e1cf5.filesusr.com/ugd/451a43_49cdca85f19f499b96be45dd52ac26ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://923a8ca3-316b-4844-b38f-9bc955ad4852.filesusr.com/ugd/312e0e_a207f95f23554407b211c4c94549bc1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e253e3c5-3ade-4ab0-bd99-d79aa266adfd/self_assertive_meaning_synonym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/puretulenuza/kileponidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fac34b2-062c-480d-9000-efd901048bfc/molecular_formula_of_hydrogenated_palm_kernel_oil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://45ed8376-e832-497f-ab20-0a31924dc5db.filesusr.com/ugd/4b7290_3346e5615c6446d39531b449fcefcf43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d52aed46-be45-4f9b-8106-cf6fc7ee66c0.filesusr.com/ugd/b148e5_feade85df249462eaa32ad3e21c52232.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a8a70d16-e3f0-4805-b115-4d8c62c40b57.filesusr.com/ugd/82e28d_5e8e92a3e05a416f8a5309df04eb23c5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1c437d0a-cccb-4a8a-93f1-39e0b5126915.filesusr.com/ugd/b91566_f33bf5e1efa048b1b5d29e0950b7a4a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://584abdf6-e408-48d3-a53c-4313a8f82471.filesusr.com/ugd/18ee90_a4be7e2cfd2a4f4c97a38c47144b6b09.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a694a867-b0fa-45cd-b082-7f9abf80b1a7.filesusr.com/ugd/430cb2_77bbc077e40947178ad124b91a2ad9c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://89e5ed4a-33eb-42a6-b5f1-9fc07ea1e15b.filesusr.com/ugd/ff68bb_e4abef53511a4a538627898580f8d9c9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuxutedi/pizza_dough_roller_sheeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jajoxulabojaso/wezorutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wefadep/73169174236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bibejovixapis/dobubopesumuz.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_off0000dee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE4 5208 bytes
SHA-256: b46643829d472ca990ad4396a6e2f577d78197ea36f8f340a70afb14ed1c7884
font_01_sfnt_off0000f086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF086 10816 bytes
SHA-256: fee52bea80b630bde080d831db5c2d781f6a5d7878cc66bb65241c605e92746a