Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea2ffb720d614dff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1412045cd54d94acf0009e05777c24dc SHA-1: 8c8af61a9668826edb45e7d7cf50af22a3c7a5ea SHA-256: ea2ffb720d614dffca8dfe6f9c5faa09c0423ebaed1e4b85a86eb0491e4debd3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are disguised as academic resource links, pointing to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware download sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are characteristic of phishing lures designed to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+mechanics+fundamentals+and+applications+3rd+edition+solutions+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/revikenixidavusawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/faxetovodudofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/bobepebopisares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210904040017196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/37984096367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/75434090270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/legiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/pikiwonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/72695479423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/puxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/tukanevubosolebuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/sowozemezoreta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/mabomefolizeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109080909383901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/74699099878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skmsm.com/userData/board/file/lunitotukevelasunokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/30347871562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/mavogimakixoruselir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henuopack.com/d/files/96261954895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/kejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24660554034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/77705346054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/bamugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubkao-kubpla.com/userfiles/files/17357637057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b23c4fba9762e8a2de3123f19e290d/80600936047.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF76 11136 bytes
SHA-256: c7bc26b9b152be814cb4580818536668b37cfabb67683487c62d6b37fb0256f7
font_01_sfnt_off00010935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10935 20692 bytes
SHA-256: 0601f2a966ef06c69199c539a752cbb341ef972821875ab904d03673e6b67743
font_02_sfnt_off00013d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1