Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1e02eefe482a9f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-03-19 14:43:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: a9732bb82925ba478567c621c3f03f1a SHA-1: 9402f30a549dc39d66686d5026afb3d1c78171bb SHA-256: f1e02eefe482a9f139314ae1e3057f365b83aac5cbe32f271567fc296b1ee948
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://jumiwimov.ru/award?keyword=quimica+inorganica+cualitativa+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473654/normal_60135f773143b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489717/normal_604981288b6cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cfc603e6-7cd4-4c42-812b-9722deb80ae4.filesusr.com/ugd/0e9fc2_fbfcc583988b4efb9bc09e142e269415.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1bc96006-6ee3-4716-9c79-963fb584fc6d/the_summoning_of_everyman_full_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46953bd7-6405-4f29-9ab7-fe706ef9a7b6/monkey_king_the_lost_empire_2001_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://20128683-61eb-4207-b985-d468b1a81fea.filesusr.com/ugd/0049ca_eb9dba6e3d324d65a2437da736f03378.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6e411c6-638b-4845-8d34-ecf35eebffe4/55012498573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7fe6b731-3703-45da-bcbe-faf39b4d3392.filesusr.com/ugd/880a7e_766a3425159c4e1ca048b10bf0736da4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3cb52ec4-5473-4ef7-acea-8e142bc6bfe8/functional_analysis_definition_and_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79cc0d93-5eb8-431b-94a7-e2056a7947b8/21167123274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b69b678-2179-47f6-8267-1a28f242d355/63215661203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/caa677e6-ece3-4509-9fae-2c2682c50cf6/bushkill_swarm_trap_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26e3d270-3f92-4254-b6f8-92f1e8252222/physioex_9.0_exercise_4_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f3b86e06-b3aa-4ee1-82f7-79049f3379a8.filesusr.com/ugd/0c4fd2_51deab8a10854e2dae594bec45cc20f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://27f1a270-5048-4778-87f0-574dfe85248a.filesusr.com/ugd/b7306e_1d36a3f23d6044dcbdc7a5db066d2cb6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45f61934-b4a1-4335-a9e3-e142d9465b5b.filesusr.com/ugd/0dd040_f4158551854347619abb357dc37b1098.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5e3b32e6-a537-4a58-a531-ef303a468713.filesusr.com/ugd/120874_0002246e4c1a44958e1599bc9a77bdeb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://237a2310-9536-43ad-add1-fe73b840a51a.filesusr.com/ugd/8b319d_9e5c64ee3f9b4360898cf41b6c771a76.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/173a759c-207d-40b8-a735-d37910eded50/galuzugemimepofaxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6efcc41-a90c-4b26-bb5e-364738aefd78/genetics_a_conceptual_approach_5th_edition_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/144a87b0-6a27-475b-94f1-9b1ab6cb4fa8/sademogufewezevupapuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f795fc76-8749-4b7d-9fac-fdb0561b8339/xuporukerelifokaxanipupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1a9cd40a-f0d6-44d4-a143-19288280ca2b.filesusr.com/ugd/7a13df_d0a92ca564804d758fa9cb6676ffafbe.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00014266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14266 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 7dfa3a526e917e42c5628553608d0827571fa028dbb0d2b506d7a51c7f385430
font_01_sfnt_off000154c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154C8 13004 bytes
SHA-256: 5b2f69dbaf34a95fba212667e4d5ee2e8e8f8f2404b7c22481232975d5625260