Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7ca8c0297fb0237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-03-23 00:54:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 0869add59fac2d10eea1c8a55901cd23 SHA-1: 5bc8576480136f3ae16c353e1674cdae5d6fe29d SHA-256: e7ca8c0297fb023782db074ff10e31e67d8ecad1a84cd6f0b2cca453758fccd2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or SEO spam document. The embedded URLs and the document body's deceptive title point towards a phishing or content-scraping scheme designed to drive traffic to malicious or ad-filled websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://botokaw.ru/aws?utm_term=how+to+calculate+angles+between+parallel+lines PDF link annotation
    • https://fepavibubezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134611462/7fbb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keksik24.ru/nopexiwoborx5jq8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/definuseju/F1W4ic7/sovesoweduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bagudivibi/6gjhgB5/buguwumomudebegoxijuwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wexunaveb/chjV3yZ/bubble_bobble_classic_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nekawosewifij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815774/2451274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ralanuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775203/8550c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazeja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135990405/30a90c1222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/viforoge/DietVXf/99049101601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wepiwojeta/hjgihid/kingston_coin_op_laundry_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vudupapuj/bzIijd5/best_online_ballet_classes_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstreadersclub.com/pafufivosezosof7q6p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxelawinojiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134333718/34a0fcb030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokefepafox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134333292/5042480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kogujipubap/ThgnQgi/zusokujaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupapuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726568/fizuzuf-juvejozokekomi-lozebugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemuxarasojutin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374283/b29e87a263b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-green.fun/tableaux_de_provence_alto_saxljqfp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibivesulekot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017222/3d6a8500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/napumefu/idgcagd/mercado_pago_chile_numero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jowapezo/vjdGgj0/geometry_dash_scratch_hacked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voxepobar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668427/xifalifarumaxajema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellmax-site.xyz/halloween_candy_powerpoint_templatefk4ak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wabajevebe/hghaAid/aarp_benefits_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meine-gebuhrenfrei.com/627250782206sdpj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nowageg.onlinewebshop.net/22297291949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wodowepakimeko.onlinewebshop.net/anemia_drepanocitica_en_nios.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_off0000f136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF136 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff40eba52e6d2352223c96b557f0972f91cd2b395ac1db1c25be6c517590beb
font_01_sfnt_off00010356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10356 11488 bytes
SHA-256: 8c4bc32b2482ace0fcb3e57a5a8889780243cc6ec0efe25e6c24097105e30cde