Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2ab48c7b86deab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-05-31 04:26:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cfdb39eac46d5a71fc3f90ce465ef069 SHA-1: b13b6fe9ee3ad576e9eb9c2ee318d45ce26ef824 SHA-256: fe2ab48c7b86deabff10133320c26a3cc26f3fdacc8499aabac371ffbf3af3da
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious link farm, containing numerous external links, several of which point to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=advanced+computational+mathematics+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420250/normal_606194e9c7f2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifimebitumane.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134236425/teleguviniruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salotoniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305201/2815278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikenanevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589255/bazulanaxewuzemelugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368954/normal_602456214e632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woxujinugav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305359/retub-rawimatepegutur-kimaf-jozalageloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484383/normal_6051f9a54e08f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romudemul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886817/3019571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozofawado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874325/c3038d4f55d5.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/b3a9eac6-1fbb-4e89-ab9c-e42930db115c/77280733044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92dee62e-f7c0-4d1a-b3ee-a1495b0a28d9/buku_akutansi_biaya_daljono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3506a66-243a-4fc2-80ca-bc13dedd45b3/29507303713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5b558cb-e639-49d2-a171-cc64ddc51f03/weber_spirit_3_burner_grill_lowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd8a1f11-d0ac-4ae7-9f85-241d614a5240/bebivisivubibewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b43aa78-1fbc-40ab-83ff-a447a4627f83/kunafezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/955f2076-4235-4987-b07f-07382e4810f8/motu_ultralite_mk3_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f92c1de9-458c-42e2-a0f4-6e2bbda7790c/circular_slide_rule_simulator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c54b74dc-b420-4eda-9235-3773aaad43cf/what_is_the_fourier_sine_transform_of_x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b61057dd-c24b-496f-8acb-02bc59a5bbed/mizizaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50e9f3f8-fcd8-4402-92e5-d1670b5d22b1/dark_souls_3_4k_textures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/785b86b5-872a-4db8-939e-8aa6c6534e55/what_is_the_message_of_the_poem_the_road_not_taken_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/637b8092-030d-40ac-bbe2-ec822bcb20b5/20461914245.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f55a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55A 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 5b35e32e80f2940bbc7ad2ccbfa558a6b374cfee15c8734e1119340195d9a088
font_01_sfnt_off0001081c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081C 11384 bytes
SHA-256: a64d0fb6de98f4053e58506a26b0cd62035f07a897f6876e12138d88fad38cb1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE3 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd