Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097255864c79b145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-04-02 03:54:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8cade74e5fc0d79c4378999edc5acef7 SHA-1: cd22d1b436335adccbcfa67001481c99703288c2 SHA-256: 097255864c79b14555c3dd71ba345a63899147f9446e16ad19fe46d7993da795
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to lead users to compromised or malicious web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=australian+parrots+breeding+tips+in+urdu+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wefikugozakilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/nimojopeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusajozaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381142/baxogovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewemoledomuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746436/duvuremelaz-durakorosud-lukereburizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakifiku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347754/6923727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizeximafebofiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134369397/gepipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevenizak.iblogger.org/histoire_de_l_assemble_nationale_du_cameroun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teduruperalugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320262/pobifibakuroxe-bovixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetmeet.online/79109449575yntss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijudunewofas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134696620/7065093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dihtyar.online/nozupilaletimir67rp2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vehicleinsusa.com/dewalt_20v_max_drill_and_impact_driver_combo_kit_lowesj3ikm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funesovikigaje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740183/4360704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welavomuwaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633166/perawokuponoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioforce-co.site/97950828161ks6aw.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/3124310d-978f-443f-ad1f-6d3f6eb83044/43969689756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://72cee60b-533f-4fda-9f40-87b1bb6f0553.filesusr.com/ugd/590778_e2a6879ad0be4c45acc3401e0b3dd03f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f305821-5040-4107-b67b-f5ba3551faca/35898092754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5c817321-7c0c-448b-959d-deb1da9fd788.filesusr.com/ugd/19103d_135ed8e630ee44049178f300518f2419.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7db47cb1-962b-43b0-9112-f6dcc68b1593/how_does_swiss_wealth_tax_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7ed754b6-a209-4558-9281-0032c7ee8ade.filesusr.com/ugd/4329d7_1f73ceb016d74e5eafa240c5f72d4789.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://detotoga.epizy.com/msc_botany_entrance_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://041aa876-b65b-432c-96c0-58c8b295a4e4.filesusr.com/ugd/90d19e_542fc4329eea4023857cc780ed7a31f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8271b8e8-1520-4b18-8785-2fafc8cd33e6.filesusr.com/ugd/efc97f_8852391c467142f8abaca0dfa0ee7c4c.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000102a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A3 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 9168696cd909632bc92bb0bd322ee68c0365aeeff63b97fd4fc20e6c79d77161
font_01_sfnt_off000114cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CF 11420 bytes
SHA-256: e7638d364204c0bec1aac796aa30f52f79843b5e7cac7b5119455b4545879c95