Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00df301a2e84b18d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-06-04 18:01:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2affbb77c3b2e1ea83dbe9cc67d98992 SHA-1: ecb5c2c9b7ca9c4f632f615daa64485f01553873 SHA-256: 00df301a2e84b18d792b071d74a51d7d9f376580ec73294528f3fd27409ae6e1
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, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute other malicious files. The heuristic firings indicate a PDF link farm and a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely using spearphishing attachments as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=pirith+book+sinhala+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://rixapuboxexegat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348256/tulemuzozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461484/normal_606d42fee0d9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382773/normal_5fd1c70e32ace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopeludaseji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986928/b69a4c2371631f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duloloju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137502516/rudozokuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pumewuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134638235/10b221584bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443824/normal_605d5c5c0cb5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4444643/normal_60b1c2b903a42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fineruliji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313455/wexoke_lasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408323/normal_5fe24de21ea2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wunaramalus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576193/0f099d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445326/normal_6048582f7abf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedafiwiwez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302754/pefupebofaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366044/normal_605fbb9a4b5ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366367/normal_6015887334ea2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zawepiko.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144547437/quelle_est_la_diffrence_entre_la_gendarmerie_mobile_et_la_gendarmerie_dpartementale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerobedevu.pbworks.com/f/6322700036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezimin.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144422472/can_you_give_someone_a_3_day_eviction_notice.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://sinhala.sourceforge.net/In PDF document text
    • http://sinhala.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sinhala/sinhala/fonts/CREDITSIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A0 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 87081ca1704173747fee5833be291e2cea2f27b78e5e50326dc259dbf1e7ec3b
font_01_sfnt_off000103da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DA 22304 bytes
SHA-256: f221acf2bd14d82058feba6a68f2c30741c905ff0d2de176d889d84f049803e0
font_02_sfnt_off00013977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13977 12252 bytes
SHA-256: 23315b9b86996bd35c42dd47c2634971bff6340af7d4d15a91de5cca20e39477