Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e99cd654a9ecbb30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-11-22 17:32:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1d99d0bc3de14aa3ebe068d57e6b470c SHA-1: b7aebd45a47eceb5a85e54d0f29eed081f2231a1 SHA-256: e99cd654a9ecbb3059150183ec0f5ccb87c464ee1a3a04e3b3a2a894fd60cad2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URLs likely lead to malicious content or phishing sites, and the document's structure and content are consistent with a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=the+mark+of+zorro+1920+imdb PDF link annotation
    • https://padukasafif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134404544/617250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fewugoxozo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134441687/mezuzisuxupuki_mefesanotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mopepeserowote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134621402/paxigamaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakawugob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969990/pigaluzunenoruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotevopokevunab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134590751/ponupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dabituge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344098/71cd0edc039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/8554420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimejexoxixaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872185/aa94aa7f99c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadamosemexijep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134434227/tetetituzowu_rewezomepimor_bukufu_vawukutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamuvoraraxuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486612/xumavokunesofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wufujaxuwagax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400484/fotaluf.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/6b01cb08-37cd-41f6-bf1d-48464d07c493/jotorukuwo.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_off0000ccbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCBC 5620 bytes
SHA-256: cf18fe19b6201a66da2ebb47b7afe38f390398eacadca45378df307e94790721
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAF 11144 bytes
SHA-256: de1b12151dc870a62a55d05c592b836058e5e46bfb08e60ad32aacc72c7fd262