Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0188e5b23503dd28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-04-23 23:24:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 59c3518b20328bbe1148f6ddfcd65efa SHA-1: ba74b83cd37ec018040f4abc45c1398d62c08cee SHA-256: 0188e5b23503dd28769f858893bdda538de03360b6e7aec78702566134fb7b06
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=where+is+the+wps+button+on+my+att+wireless+router PDF link annotation
    • https://ramorebuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134898890/7584246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukikabapesudux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108868/taxozitixoso-roviluda-tigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojikusabuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135301399/vetepobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxokiwi.22web.org/baby_s_day_out_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabojipenow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636987/23c70f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodararikerat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885074/butevololadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limifotediko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325738/2550918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netukilegulises.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606016/7314983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profapp.pro/forsk_atoll_crackzxj1r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefapewirevuvik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134667644/fb6341fe9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nosinoski.shop/sofewumezagadelipijugs08g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jubaluwaruzazux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740890/2833869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com-signto5.xyz/school_business_manager_job_description_ukhwgv0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigidejuremu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502839/gamaxapinagujezafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusipesokos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585271/loxaxepotulo-fujan-poviwinizites-loteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nubugudapo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814946/jexokinapove_zatoweragirip.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/7a3e0973-c6d1-41a2-95d7-44163953524a/26411386065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/814a285f-201a-4e47-ac96-e85a0459a4e8/breitling_aerospace_manual_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e8fda4e-8be0-472b-abdf-62f561e6400c/jijonuponigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popavager.epizy.com/latex_beamerpages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98577867-582a-4083-a86e-c343272b92d1/25701177329.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_off0000ec6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6C 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 970f3298dc3fc45f7f13fd44b11d33efe597963f685d300c4d16fbef34fd2a02
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB9 10928 bytes
SHA-256: d0376d6efbc70a6fb7ba571bd6d7bba17676cc95436dbeaffe502685ec9ad2d8