Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea675f8c24f43bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-04-24 21:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2525429f27ad073fec0fcceea748b2a0 SHA-1: cb5bf0d61f32364b9cc19a80ea05e2daaf08d472 SHA-256: ea675f8c24f43bbfec15b257aa48bd910186179b07ce6811bc67813af5a3f600
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains flagged as disposable hosting. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a link farm structure, and the presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or redirection lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=call+me+by+your+name+sequel+book PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420030/normal_6019a6682b556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazipuvaxa.mywebcommunity.org/wefusexabovanupigizoxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371808/normal_604d1fa432550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopogabijup.mywebcommunity.org/ly_hnh_nh_t_file_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487618/normal_606c85bac57ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495039/normal_5fd2e6aebb9f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405459/normal_600df7056700f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lololoj.sportsontheweb.net/why_is_yellow_associated_with_fear.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4f6c49ad-35c2-4e1b-a50e-a4ca4816ee30.filesusr.com/ugd/a28dad_73154344236344acb5f5f6403af2648b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bededuxotulapil/autodesk_revit_2019_free_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://627f215e-41ba-4aa4-9906-5f9f9d117739.filesusr.com/ugd/8ab72e_3af42e4903ee42cfa79bb033b660ada9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xalexojaxipud/46295290872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d128792e-e0a8-46e0-98ed-b941f5da69b2.filesusr.com/ugd/b98abb_6d89798dc6554c1d9b5456ef435c7dfb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82392f9e-4af9-4716-b3c4-192eace17f56/23927010706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40052bae-d6b0-4be3-9c84-96956a804c69.filesusr.com/ugd/32907c_244fb0f6735344ae8285894a6d65fd40.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/134f22fe-524c-4b54-bf0b-7137095c2481/xovopijowuxijisajiritukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba10d46a-d7c1-43af-8542-f1a50f31aa8a.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_51847144c86d43098ea8f0e36bc52ca0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gevejonitu.onlinewebshop.net/macarthur_bob_ong_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a82c121c-2200-4cd7-aff6-47cf910fdadb.filesusr.com/ugd/117c17_524ec5d7e3204fbea55766ac238e6b49.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://181f3bdf-810f-4c34-abb3-9f3362228cd6.filesusr.com/ugd/30415f_3f03a52002a4437896fa2547d0b1d2b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cae2aa39-5014-47ec-b549-0fed73f36d02.filesusr.com/ugd/c8683e_231e624f483d4185b2032325e7b68bbd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e905e09d-7ddd-4aab-833c-73500e817873.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c08b_3ba5e1c43a9c4951a9e899cac286e664.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_off0000ff39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF39 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5b8eb2103dc5e7f1eb292899c6a26ddd3968ad3ae88c3e492bfdaf0874f4ed
font_01_sfnt_off000110be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BE 11520 bytes
SHA-256: f2d09ef1b5e4fe64ea4c55a5219f71da77e0e77900f6cd0b28f9c8b46b47e17d