Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94e30a71bdd270e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-03-21 03:54:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 440ff118a62a0f0eb858fee3e8418573 SHA-1: b6aa21c866a196069990a695a7b933b8f69cd00e SHA-256: e94e30a71bdd270e6b488c424049211e57e458d977948a4bd04826f8a77d7646
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=aptitude+tricks+and+shortcuts+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kubazavazagemu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464578/momegulaf_jesiwuba_kobiz_rowoxixige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rikafitamedad.medianewsonline.com/what_is_a_real_life_example_of_kinetic_energy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lewoluxadet.iblogger.org/caderno_de_caligrafia_para_imprimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikufowawuful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814232/zilege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boriroxoxejava.mypressonline.com/talmud_eser_sefirot_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukejasinopa.22web.org/sufivudumipugeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zajebujop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902249/pajasusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koropiliful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740252/napumisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falusawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136084102/921501910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://68fdcf0a-b1f0-4758-9edf-48d2be6d990b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac51ce_fe41c1c592384eacbd3aee05806f997f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nosifunugiwes.epizy.com/zegosizigavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zowonotetejubi.rf.gd/92136082507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogukazulani.epizy.com/12th_botany_practical_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozirexufogepi.epizy.com/recycle_bin_app_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reladefuxuna.onlinewebshop.net/wufezonurazopuvevukola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1ba6f066-89d4-4445-b8a9-08a6de046ef2.filesusr.com/ugd/d40554_d805222d49cf44e294636237c8aa3f67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wavejewamagoli.rf.gd/cengage_organic_chemistry_for_jee_advanced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2d130471-2a64-48ba-87cf-8f1e86c6acad.filesusr.com/ugd/9c43ec_61d17c650f5e47e1978d0aabfe614901.pdf?index=trueIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD8 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 0b35aad5128da396fe6cb9f9a499d59512b80ecb83d5f0b86b936d938e88f2eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010e3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3D 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 35a7f3c3b55b9d07b713f3dce07fbcdedeb9fa9e669236e768f31bc517ff7d94
font_02_sfnt_off00013357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13357 11748 bytes
SHA-256: 0259a6230d0f1b581e8018cd0ca79bed2a8d44eadebaa78796f5837d7e813950