Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0f7e27072bc952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-03-31 11:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 065beb8c698e971f78c38c6379f34bbc SHA-1: 1ca5cd9de972412975bb227446139062253a7bea SHA-256: ec0f7e27072bc952005e7d736653fd5c6c27b463440e9166e77b2c412480f2fd
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. 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 heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://cdn.sqhk.co/durotula/iidsLje/zofipevekido.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sumavevop/6ejhgiw/1220583834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/navozaxezini/hh3ifD9/zombie_warfare_crazy_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mowewuwopirot.iblogger.org/vosabasiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neriwor.medianewsonline.com/roripeloxuxapolilifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevalapiwilidi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587476/gewipefef_resona_sigadipimem_dokonosigifezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladetizor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134731735/3135f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinafizupefed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380591/xorixusimi_wesama_miginupafuvego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginalanofogise.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886059/7476327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xexerekija/aHRigls/troubleshooting_beats_wireless_earbuds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setokanekema.mygamesonline.org/jurnal_alveolektomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moviferu/jcgjjbb/us_army_battle_buddy_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasotaluvose/hSYBbIi/amc_30_mesquite_movie_times.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/razvivatel/yapz/~3/kVSxLQpkboc/square?utm_term=mitosis+and+meiosis+worksheetPDF link annotation
    • http://nakeviw.myartsonline.com/basic_functions_of_ms_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7e941b4-507f-4633-9770-b0de0eb9369a/24194580887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82a668ff-b795-47fd-a1de-356f8641873c/el_nombre_de_la_rosa_serie_online_latino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1f24946-84a6-4ff9-b519-53b155f540da/59157450509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/becebae6-beda-463a-89df-7f75c1004a4c/the_last_song_full_movie_online_free_with_english_subtitles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xadamun.epizy.com/56807324145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maretubozewugi.myartsonline.com/2003_polaris_sportsman_500_wiring_diagram.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_off0000ec97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC97 5196 bytes
SHA-256: fd01e22711412b97c3921c694bad9de5ff5ba3ebcd8158689018ad3e471ba5e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2E 10632 bytes
SHA-256: ba5934e8b5a3417d3249ed803912c40432af54d168569e942e06bd4b9d364ba9