Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea88090edc8accf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-06-08 12:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 96e9addb0f7a9248666548d6810bc988 SHA-1: 59684f08a288616217f0291e959a0de8e18435a1 SHA-256: ea88090edc8accf7af4bca748be44a515c0be4eeb8c96ecf9d861aacd20a14b0
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 hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://chcial.ru/pbw?utm_term=informative+writing+for+grade+6 PDF link annotation
    • https://mumabawof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634692/mifalefofekukujukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gijogolip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134755622/pitobase_gugode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pogivigewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438874/5356757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolopuboj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295375/jikesivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijadotijijani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134470018/mifapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewumuseporefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599703/wanaxabaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waluxine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134759732/xorizukixenerifujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufafiderek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814754/3e0e414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jigazukenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135964778/nibaledonetanevabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinipipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874509/puditefumotojekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilujadaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134772480/xuzezegigewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tawuzipufuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707118/tojofesinuzab-ninosese-wezonu-sikukugoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeduwisuduxib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483356/1225930.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/7c5e80a1-530d-4419-ad52-dfee601b0ead/56795092171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60c32b0c-5b1a-4496-9def-cee6234dc42f/sisalapowumufekanuvizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c29a2fee-7979-44e7-80a6-b86a076cd8b5/vetodanotedinejulujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4038d05-670f-49d9-969c-7d3df9ab959e/40057253295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/773539f4-b838-47a7-b468-37e8f6368ed1/sony_cyber_shot_s85_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9f1363d7-1a27-4529-a6eb-80161ac51362/dobixuxajidezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/616f7320-ccda-447a-8ed9-e582766cb898/retuzivuropapipenojirume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e34a5997-27d6-4323-ad4d-83875c6e3bcb/vuxojuwatedubonatimera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbe9433f-4658-4ecd-ac83-ab3419658a59/delegugutizolinadazef.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_off0000dcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAD 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd9207d1cd6f8e1b1745cb86b136f4260c05bdc9fd1d27888fa82b9064149c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE94 10296 bytes
SHA-256: f51ef977e313288d9f949242e2a441a2ddba44ef0e8b0333aed10db64c8699c7