Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee97c238d02b7290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-04 09:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8ce0a328c75725c636c62ecf71a76d11 SHA-1: d1c4e1b0287bf1bbe495133cc4596d4e00404860 SHA-256: ee97c238d02b7290a46f4956349aee47b67e971c059889342004a5f7cde3b69d
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious content. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, and employs lures such as download buttons and password-protected archive instructions to trick users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=tamil+pambu+panchangam+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://foxanebipukete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134309218/zomumupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459481/normal_6068bba40fdfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501501/normal_5ff309a99b3be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391621/normal_5fe16a5141f51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373504/normal_5fdcbf8f1de8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393016/normal_6018db1e44d19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajofezev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134603150/mudipulesikowigajeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426701/normal_605369bba9e35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xofudafitigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135327781/fuzudabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422897/normal_606dc11a90a37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapifulo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134345172/fokisomil-sevobakuto-zifibobilamame-zasanilotazig.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/f8110568-5738-4ca3-9135-8832cf70d991/dd_wrt_client_bridge_xfinitywifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runaliguredu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144455415/82511835623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73174a6c-843a-441f-9130-6f561d582248/zesili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f55f3a0-4b97-4390-918d-47168a0147a6/44401485915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelovoguvunu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144425634/modurevexijugage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/734b1938-8827-4a90-a36d-44d5aeb062ce/78479836698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f293e40-dead-4008-b03d-0fd259dfe569/can_you_track_your_child_support_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kufujibumufa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144412365/sibuwafesukarewuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/972ebe98-59a3-4bb3-a55a-eadab6d99cac/adhyaksha_in_america_movie_download_tamilrockers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb7a0c84-5832-451b-b5d7-5f2f396d4e4f/metunixogujefapiluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13e2d8bc-2f52-46bc-93eb-b8555c0ff7d7/sawemokokoluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazimonofe.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144460260/94967752018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbb13f84-fd0a-4342-986f-efcd1bc983e0/64222148094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6647192-a7da-477c-9987-a9bd7032aff9/fluval_fx5_impeller.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_off00010253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10253 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 806ea212595ae8ed51d167cacc07ba7a9385a8e18b2b542ce1502e6b841fc8e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DE 11636 bytes
SHA-256: aef8f7b690f64439c94bb1e804011ed23978607f9c7fbbfc7583b0f708e6e0e3