Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c9e65cc2edfbd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-07 19:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d1e1b47543b83bf95519f42afefceed4 SHA-1: 69f98dd43369ed93fc5d694eaaa55abbfccaca60 SHA-256: e7c9e65cc2edfbd0596953fbd9e85d6b46846c6e076265d45246aeaf589677f0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/123?utm_term=cbse+compartment+exam+2018+date+sheet PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371020/normal_601709465165d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xubivolimoba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740090/zefavogopepelejizogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pugufatafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135967981/ad89764e72f4a1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423431/normal_606a46ad3f2b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425209/normal_60254c99c70b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4409243/normal_60b11ac08714b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365541/normal_5fd26dd10dc69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454967/normal_60036db93e712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizupuligal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134603830/236c246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapezirotup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576964/lufefobado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485451/normal_605ff0530f5b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367286/normal_5fe3f19a9a588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486197/normal_6057b811d5493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vunemagerubu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525741/898a7862af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410214/normal_6006bd6274c45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419832/normal_60196b41dd879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446287/normal_5fdb7a31b8427.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/53028537-6ac5-431c-8bad-0df1b8fdd87c/samsung_galaxy_note_8_charger_cable_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/415b5598-ec52-4fac-a128-06650e8852c6/87925620526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57fbde85-1cb6-4706-a5a2-c6b246e3b39f/42732837652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a30acd57-62b5-4468-ad63-691b136a986d/67955557797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cadff5f-356f-47cd-8f60-76f6399da486/98710033031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52e830d3-dc8e-46f6-9f96-3c95d4ff872d/are_delonghi_air_conditioners_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43c07a03-f0d8-44f5-8bdd-ab6e4ee9f606/best_vampire_team_blood_bowl_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cca765cd-accc-47b7-937e-547d9ae126cf/jitepuwadigebisiwunajimap.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_off000107f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F1 5912 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff93b0eefe34a19454ef20b13bd5884484055cb86c70ace341df7fbd8785c5a
font_01_sfnt_off00011be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE3 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 370a248bc4a08ebc467d5d853e2ee29141444300e75ee5583ab1629ff6d35abd