Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eceabd60c3baa691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-03-31 18:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 9e397b96e1a3a1bf64c3e945014d94f5 SHA-1: 9f6eb4f9ac57e673852b35e91a04c33b373a8ec9 SHA-256: eceabd60c3baa691d1359869226f3ea0f2203b9370de2f43c8adb3959c000052
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The primary attack pattern observed is the creation of a link farm, likely as a precursor to or part of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

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://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=affairscloud+weekly+pdf+august+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://renobulog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464004/989f400541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387702/normal_6023e50e3d4c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2-club.ru/alliteration_in_beowulf_with_page_numbers0t46z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestablestl.com/pet_sematary_1989_parents_guide8fvrp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459623/normal_6023be480c9c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegefajowib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380265/3937be94b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojizenufojanog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134724603/2086755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485156/normal_604a8b4847098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenegogak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522167/5945414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feloxoxux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000485/9039374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mituzeru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681412/2342063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497685/normal_5fd61e8008a2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buloshnaya.site/how_to_turn_a_wireless_xbox_360_controller_into_wiredkyxsv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volorizog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070051/6770214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwhite.space/likert_scale_analysis_onlinec8nkc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://javesuput.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873829/7800894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokotahas.ru/tovopudirifokow7p94p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405430/normal_5fe005c5b4a05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranquils.space/what_kind_of_battery_does_a_ford_focus_needktfz3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489713/normal_5fec25e41b922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470832/normal_5fd7dfe59caa1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozelofesewezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040375/redadurupafugurerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0001029f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029F 5844 bytes
SHA-256: d3cd4f48f0ca6219cc00be88aa4b45b8df5baf6f2278722ae79531f734b79f75
font_01_sfnt_off000116ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116BA 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 477c188379a6a15be1ff46a87b701abd9c223357139dfb065774c2eb77341671