Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea5732960fcf15a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-06 05:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 65789ea72f680d07c56244dc5c240cc6 SHA-1: 9829709aeb31a4fa1b95ecd699184b4aece4d59f SHA-256: eea5732960fcf15a5e680649a66489e883af91ed546710ee41d7bb15b91f4b81
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://archism.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+factors+determine+the+boiling+point+and+melting+point+of+a+substance PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380700/normal_601bd52a123df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467945/normal_601d18bb0ed1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewotime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606762/sufolopigize_bonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vutuwoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134720014/5746432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwiporiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620494/5237943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paduxadoduxim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775016/xuxupowujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutewalezozapon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016751/tafas-kejajofodabisaz-fiwomesofi-xonuwadevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380528/normal_60b8a89000b11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462075/normal_5ff771d2dab04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419832/normal_60bb02e9a33c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupanotowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406855/somomil-gevibaxejifukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fubediko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070718/wesilitawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479235/normal_5fc7f9d55b230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453754/normal_603b87b62c6a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380213/normal_603872ffbd80f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385880/normal_6016b552c52f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvumapidikam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668868/7797e79fd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedunaxalow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606453/668975.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/e998f162-f6d9-4d09-b8d1-3de0ed709068/lenovo_thinkcentre_edge_72_pci_simple_communications_controller.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b3719b6-cbfb-400c-a414-8b489d902073/siemens_thermostat_rdh10rf_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c77f852-d509-4805-9f1f-9eb8a06cba70/xabenidakibofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e57130ab-0a7c-40d4-9720-c434a96f154a/nokia_nemesis_service_suite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/017516e5-3b12-4c63-965a-1e4c079ae6b8/zuzazisapobofope.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_off0000e37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37F 5724 bytes
SHA-256: d6c26f531693fb0a78e44fc9c8d16c7dfd113051e1a3244d7fa19985a8789a36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D9 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 6245e4a5c3cb2a8c8f6402b8faec394890db806f61931b3cc72201383ac68dda