Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea785b4312559886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-03-22 06:58:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 15f67b5a5f75cf26554476219997b9cd SHA-1: 6930b7e8b7a70da759ecd6c23a4fe8c68b60ecb5 SHA-256: ea785b43125598869dcfb934a9de94908fc89fdd214c092819e042ba5fb15110
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external links are indicative of a malicious document, potentially used as a lure for spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://jumiwimov.ru/award?keyword=characteristics+of+bryophytes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://silewugebed.scienceontheweb.net/wixagamavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuxekagapefe.mygamesonline.org/actiontec_mi424wr-gen3i_wap_dd-wrt_v24-sp2.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/4cd3973f-281d-44d4-a327-1e81b80d72f4/how_to_do_hand_lettering_on_procreate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fexuror/duvasudevidabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b2ffc4e-c12f-4264-96bb-0893047d88ee/when_time_is_good_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1fa67a36-2e8b-44cc-a955-751d80433762.filesusr.com/ugd/d85e51_e73f5d02b34745e79ba949fbce1c9d69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d53c60e9-d83b-4455-b1fb-438253014b34/bell_and_howell_projector_253_ax_bulb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zifozujiwi/xavexuxelofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9dcbe77d-15b0-4cd9-9a30-dcf9dc0656f4/turtle_beach_px5_ps4_chat_cable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/levovod/cant_find_realtek_hd_audio_manager_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a7bb434-d665-435b-b6bf-d9714a26f711/holt_science_and_technology_forces_motion_and_energy_online_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e7ef639-f89a-4701-86f9-710a836f1183.filesusr.com/ugd/12745a_ed9d7fb6f4a34b4fb845be343d5320de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/243158ca-e77d-455d-8a1d-9124a198e6b6/sb_800_right_to_repair_act.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/polexebuj/64625589759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puvapulugo.onlinewebshop.net/gujarati_barakhadi_in_english_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tonemakopinibem/ezgo_txt_48_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a97a5479-65d4-45e4-9d0b-28d273605dc0/jukewefadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zisulamisozoto/create_android_emulator_android_studio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetenifeme/papageno_papagena_duet_free_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e92f647-5f40-4f30-9143-54b425d4cb00/boy_scout_store_tulsa_oklahoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8f1c0ae7-1ba6-4c51-a623-4d29f5e3aebb.filesusr.com/ugd/c1615c_6b2d4b39bcd740db99a0df6b8ae5a012.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nevowimo/which_is_the_best_k_cup_coffee_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d6c9cbc-4ab1-4f3f-9960-68929a757c97/samsung_c460_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c1f973cf-d719-4acb-8f9e-cd83ae4fb94d.filesusr.com/ugd/057766_83393c966e8049708b772b408773c1b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mukut/parentheses_brackets_and_braces_worksheets_5th_grade.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_off00013461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13461 5356 bytes
SHA-256: cc05451aaca70d1f50e92fff319155d0a75803cebbf42cde5a5fdd23ccf5291c
font_01_sfnt_off0001468e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1468E 13296 bytes
SHA-256: 1534420633585a906365b234dada3e54662c3f0078bc43beefea63c9143f9564