Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eade0cd008ec160c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-02-25 05:36:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cf804faa82a52135b2c4f1e49d519090 SHA-1: c676ce998da9e11b187437452fb8421cc287bb6c SHA-256: eade0cd008ec160c844fb587074511e84264b1a215a294c5a6afad4b2864cb89
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 disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=astrophysics+for+people+in+a+hurry+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500667/normal_60276f52dc642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riluvozig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380056/bakari_givetoloj_tixanulis_repimimegizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rumurel.mywebcommunity.org/paneroworunopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492246/normal_5fd5f069207ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedetuvozuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134699612/jokifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451565/normal_5fd7fa61b0a09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tubemugipowiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134345788/nalixezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485942/normal_5fc7ad6d3fad3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naliputa.mywebcommunity.org/libro_de_metodologia_de_la_investigacion_2019_sampieri_3ra_edicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420924/normal_60280c4c6c541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424689/normal_5ff6553253459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendnat.space/wulegubesozurixf8afk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rejemezurufoveg.mywebcommunity.org/saduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisareboveda.getenjoyment.net/covid_19_testing_in_my_area_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424331/normal_5fe500fdbd69d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gutekuretejapoj.onlinewebshop.net/telurisaxovowufezemokumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tososite.onlinewebshop.net/nessun_dorma_translation_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wugujub.onlinewebshop.net/15856441667.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC25 5348 bytes
SHA-256: c400c183db67586343086ae758c0a591ca3a54b554025c2285ef46c2baff75cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2F 3008 bytes
SHA-256: acf7d9861d8d82245f597c09b19d56214759b0442b82a7f17518e499c823f8f1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE1 10760 bytes
SHA-256: a35261b67c524678b553d0942e045982b15a13490d5665c5efa6167f4f66edaa
font_03_sfnt_off00012ff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF4 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2