Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0715c30c67a5df97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-04-21 10:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ec964d178aee3b51b7d339fccca3a6f3 SHA-1: c0c308b2c740c3339d38ab07c705c12ca75a66f5 SHA-256: 0715c30c67a5df97d218b45cffc7eb2940ddd1bc744bc298d1f2b5b8e4c98c7c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=star+trek+discovery+cast+amanda PDF link annotation
    • http://meetchat.space/89244803055otul3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belofakomag.mywebcommunity.org/biguvowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzabura.sportsontheweb.net/bvd_in_cattle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chategratis.online/rebelion_en_la_granja_pelicula_completa_en_espaol_latino_descargar6ugce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wufevinek/hg4hfXr/pwc_fair_value_measurement_guide_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moturalogupe/cLghXjb/84226979082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wixefawoz/hcjhoif/misoxitugoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lomuwugevona.getenjoyment.net/mala_alimentacion_en_el_embarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/Cm9jfWu/13324013923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreda.city/kilomigulotobizezozoxivosaqr23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_9372adc9b5d949ea9399efeac4821eee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2eb33270-06da-44d9-aaae-dd05aabb7cb8/how_to_adjust_carb_on_echo_cs_400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3633ae4e-9acc-45df-885e-1bfa1481cb44.filesusr.com/ugd/e73054_c7dbbe441f7c4d1bb94cb52b8da15248.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39c10a3a-92c6-412a-a1bb-b8a1fc48fbc4.filesusr.com/ugd/259099_74f053f1208246d5b7d9ac840bdadcb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59034405-606a-41ed-918b-46b8a95e0fe4/baxizigadowisopekedigefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0830bbc1-98df-416b-8f99-f005fbd06b25/point_to_point_bus_sta_rosa_laguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d4cba69e-f3c5-4a64-9e40-69ba24924691.filesusr.com/ugd/b73feb_bf87d4398d26438789ee67ef92a2fe4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ledaruwevegoxu.onlinewebshop.net/urban_sociology_theories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tawosutosuxi/romance_of_the_three_kingdoms_13_female_portraits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5efcf519-4c71-4be9-a00f-e1d47ba804c5.filesusr.com/ugd/ebcc4b_bacd0c92527f4639ab35d15e87e8a1ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rogugagatuf/lobokitoridinonafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9333134-253a-48d3-9e3f-fb0aa3951eec/31148795020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavofime.atwebpages.com/gemosadagegezekubinoxus.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_off000119e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E5 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 4e56c397fe76c63e37f6cf168342825afa7bc51f0f0b1b88ad58286435321454
font_01_sfnt_off00012c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2D 12284 bytes
SHA-256: 36245e23cc48447bed45a6fb1094c05a642379c08d7a914828da28aee95dcae2