Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac295dc134e4987…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2020-12-02 09:55:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bc760d4f3f47ac47397edb00ec2f9219 SHA-1: 5efec268aebf292f486087f75936ddd5553b5f74 SHA-256: eac295dc134e4987991e0b3810fca248c0c53f7b0cd037a79abdc5b389c7f08e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document contains a large number of links to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicate maliciousness. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+work+a+room+25th+anniversary+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dagigokes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739756/5041229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufedagejex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726032/xurejetexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufikaparilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592165/jikuxusetazaxukomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapemoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647299/riwudumudaxuvudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jibisovewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653871/depub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nijelulegokep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318748/7999637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xorexataziz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134496469/vizarenogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawifebenunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374742/7b00d4cc012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babikovinemixe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856339/rovumotokutebu-bologupi-zavijodorap-kukatoxepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vufupu/industrial_electrical_circuit_symbols.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc109f45e8e827d428e9438/t/5fc5847b18e72e5fdb944d5a/1606780027859/asu_grading_scale_gpa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gedesisumi/facebook_apk_lite_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbe25bbf3de5e49b52d8ad4/1606297030972/naxebakepa.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_off0000e06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06A 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 53b74c39778a4318d501123c27dd09f79d7f4fdc7468a5917a1e27b2c78886b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40F 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 26936642d25d81dead8f9ebf0f8b8355974c15c7354623926e2efdca2e39df42