Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7bb7e385279064b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-03-17 02:11:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: b69c9668f90c4b6b607b242c5204e88b SHA-1: 014b47d5458081fdd4d6491f03924596489bedb3 SHA-256: e7bb7e385279064bd5f0825efc471486ca304ab86b43abd481a7e147f62a431c
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious sites. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to 'Guilford county pending warrants', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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) 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://xezojetit.ru/wix?keyword=guilford+county+pending+warrants PDF link annotation
    • http://lasleymarkt.ru/pathogenicity_of_vibrio_cholerae3jfk2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creditscorehelp.info/sodilekamunajinugiguxalrefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofunepez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710772/6027473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maska-respirator.shop/pexomepezidobog9wh8o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanokigoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863934/sabakojep_bukage_mifimotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marafonsport.site/xaboxawaxelazomevivyzktn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lozezuxugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016676/tenoxutene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farazekij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134379469/ruzivuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paypallsecurity.com/vumitosujijivonulekivotljqon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nashremont.site/misinuvefugebobegirpn8ro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawopina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814119/wivuwikabupezizizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dozogifelezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313369/kowadelabi-saximofiwurilu-refutumomuri-tiwobogalev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poxuweke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606533/3951382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winateminapalem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041456/98bbd87f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specrazreshenie.com/nazm_hikmetin_ksa_ak_iirlerih66te.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7ae774ad-b64d-4473-a0b1-aa0db1e39e83.filesusr.com/ugd/3e7897_d733954ef40b474395ba79cee8eda34b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e25b5f36-ee09-4010-8803-019b2853a23b.filesusr.com/ugd/c34eac_55f3a0311ea1405dae2e9ccf1cf2363c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dba38112-94c9-4dbe-b98b-7ae02245ea20/taking_sides_clashing_views_in_special_education.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dfc09a25-a499-4b59-8e1f-d858dcb885e0/war_horse_play_scene_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://05491ccc-77c7-428b-9c25-74f2c6c50d4a.filesusr.com/ugd/d51d36_b89272acf1784943828f08a30b380ae6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad9e69aa-782c-4d15-a13c-a751c97daf39/safety_first_high_speed_rectal_thermometer.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_off00012216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12216 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 21c2257dddf9b31ce5edb75b5ab72a8059d013052b5383f1a5e1ce841e78c9ca
font_01_sfnt_off00013521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13521 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 33f80b4eb0dabe32e9f24c875b8f3991c0d4b92398bc5ea6d93b8f0609ef7da3