Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a4e6b048e736f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-04-04 08:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d46ddcb1f693f4b5e43e0d114deea662 SHA-1: b2f31060cc692609f1db48fa9eab88c5d97f2df4 SHA-256: 04a4e6b048e736f932f1f67fa96e6f1285b82f72a02a57303ec12f585c97f8ad
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=champion+3400+watt+inverter+generator+for+sale, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious sites or download payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=champion+3400+watt+inverter+generator+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pugudanirav/GhcZ2se/68470713601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navevukosuso.mypressonline.com/95126856595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazupegenam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695472/ee7de7644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siselujasukoju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969984/99893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajazenizur.mywebcommunity.org/movie_maker_online_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genolawibiwiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316454/mazomudafibexen_rowux_jakomiravoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watogoda.mypressonline.com/rikuzusosububunakugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxexemap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890763/dolibajose_mufewazonirar_sosaxesizadare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jurugaguvedu/eihjejg/jewesusewegebizesaso.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/d79ddc92-15d7-4d99-8a0d-d93d818b1771/lyrics_seven_years_saosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fewunadupop/baganiya_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd9aac5b-3871-473f-984a-890e78497af8/power_washer_pump_oil_capacity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zowofiz.myartsonline.com/learning_russian_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad7a023c-09e1-4760-b8c2-ca781723bc26/serway_physics_6th_edition_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavisekenesavof.myartsonline.com/dowonawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40bb4fb4-6fa3-476c-9366-9ff64ae8699b/tekozunidodexupizokobese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e35910b-4ce8-4a68-a168-cc8959b62b4c/vinotidovefomunudojujuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zunewidimem/shadow_priest_benthic_gear_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2bfcf01-8401-40eb-a6af-dd426ead4fc5/boxigusuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wetowuzuxit/symbolic_meaning_of_color_blue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wixamupelinere/46132221780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3283e5c2-92fe-4e49-a573-a4d11428252f/bash_script_options_example.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_off0000f280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF280 5764 bytes
SHA-256: ca6f632f9427dbd00b1baf6655fef490e58f045e37ab425bf858531771a87b67
font_01_sfnt_off00010616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10616 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 6583259efdf68762450dd6ad295cdc35054ababb10637cd1942aecbf8365ac8b