Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea590d3df7cb54a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 13:38:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: bbc79fed769f8777a15298341631d713 SHA-1: 4a621dd425ed56bb39bf2b068d570baa768b5446 SHA-256: ea590d3df7cb54a17252660b08cb13c1abeb663cf9abc53394eb22a91a8bafe9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to service manuals, likely serving as a lure to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=mercury+25+hp+bigfoot+4+stroke+service+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dufelogaruf/Zb8hahb/hero_wars_mobile_event_schedule_august_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vujaderaz/jdkihie/resort_island_tycoon_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lodesejidi/Zhhghib/the_elder_scrolls_blades_switch_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zosoxefu.22web.org/idle_poring_guide_rebirth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagajikis.iblogger.org/bluetooth_computer_windows_7_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kefimuriw/1vGjjlS/call_recording_app_2018_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/maxevurux/0Yihjaj/xuropilavedife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragekasa/ysmZjaw/tamezitonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zanivuwiduvo/2ghEhe0/9579864623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/konafomaz/e9mNhge/56039153100.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/0056808c-4320-48c5-83fc-ce4fe73fba9c/spark_the_definitive_guide_filetype.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06ed1adb-995d-4ad5-8745-ecd641036d96/ketoflex_diet_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joxelugokolutu.rf.gd/holden_barina_2006_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed2a5c8b-dd0b-4e23-aa9d-f4833ed971f0/vajujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beduxuluwuniva.rf.gd/37536702421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88e0aa4e-45d6-4d67-9c4c-c67cd8eaa932/how_do_i_cite_a_book_in_apa_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40e214c1-1950-44e8-a195-e2c6eeb23253.filesusr.com/ugd/a517f4_80d61cfc7ff44f0fadffe1bdbb5e87a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60e80460-5fcf-4bba-947b-edd715d16706/gadedodesidovuwesefesati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fbaba6ab-37cf-477f-82bd-e10a416eccda.filesusr.com/ugd/3c8574_f9bb1b7687de45dd8f8b359319f4ce4b.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001140c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140C 6144 bytes
SHA-256: 722d9d7902036a007013ea2fd27c96390c16ae23a65b0d861509f166b6ff70f3
font_01_sfnt_off000128f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F8 10488 bytes
SHA-256: a9840ea4da25543d467e0453e3f5f57d8ae420ed50a3b71300b076f0b43212a2