Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef276bbf59b88c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.6 KB Created: 2021-05-31 10:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ba9002c707ffd5266a962d6bca2b805c SHA-1: 03873a024868d39b2eb4e9f144706745dd26693d SHA-256: ef276bbf59b88c00fb7ffde56fd1cf87054182c6312184cfe0dcdc70e2fdcb7a
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, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. The embedded URL 'https://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=dissertation+on+digital+marketing+pdf' suggests a lure related to academic content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, likely phishing or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=dissertation+on+digital+marketing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lonopowixeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620564/6851467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387715/normal_6046398258b35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waripeseditalas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012866/5d27e227271a93e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375352/normal_6063d18554e27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469849/normal_605682ab325e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381104/normal_606782b401cd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piturerakilapes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775197/9437803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikudirag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040407/bb477e77bf35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448548/normal_6052842313a95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418565/normal_5ff3699e32153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezasagizagifoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135968908/130ddc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386837/normal_6019f0be00723.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/37dda458-22ad-4599-8437-f260b903310b/ielts_academic_reading_sample_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb68ad9b-0606-4763-8e9d-522feeb6e18c/best_jackie_moon_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f86b8c08-6286-4ea6-829b-e4883cc4b401/vw_polo_6r_service_interval_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c898069-d8ca-4d55-8710-f8d086dad0e6/descargar_bluestacks_para_ubuntu_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b846a3c0-6ab8-4741-a6b5-3dbf15a8b25f/tebopukavesavasamotisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87c39bd9-5e6d-4f36-9bf1-07079e06fd74/23447781305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9e3e0c4-e082-4e02-9f8e-326927fe3764/galedelogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/626c4677-76f2-457a-99a5-04e56e686afb/eureka_multi_cyclonic_type_s_belt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44e48b08-995c-4636-b56c-a706ce4fb0d3/gujex.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_off00018baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BAF 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 49abfa2019ba8fc2f0c134ba2baedecf1d838559bfe7add110da0444e02b80e9
font_01_sfnt_off00019e13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E13 11520 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd641edb09065f20ebd8ff1e56c2092d020602b310b773c05dff60011ffec83