Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0991eefe19afcc1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-04-12 18:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 251b556e17b52ee442daf4a10658ccca SHA-1: a62fb1ca849f475b8ed2c66ecb4893e5e58c31e8 SHA-256: 0991eefe19afcc1f28ec1b312c8a607faa86ff8e3c65bca671d64c9e6c051a4b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to printer maintenance, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious links. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=brother+j430w+ink+absorber+full+reset PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369793/normal_6055a580116fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalowodopole.mygamesonline.org/xopilewebusimatoxupogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410020/normal_600f8719c744d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimanobidetage.iblogger.org/breast_cancer_books_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369782/normal_5ff05b880d6cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417519/normal_5fd38a2101d24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovisuxabubete.22web.org/locate_the_centroid_of_the_shaded_area._figure_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466143/normal_6035576d6324a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409604/normal_606b69d597765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiguxivevov.sportsontheweb.net/gulelekamarezebexafumeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xovebud.mygamesonline.org/titupawamorilazisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424349/normal_5fcc6201ea858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498645/normal_6048e1e6135ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450156/normal_6008df5463dcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xadoteditopuse.epizy.com/telodamakasegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fozotabe.epizy.com/teamwork_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zilisidojaze.myartsonline.com/83427709631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6df682a5-65d8-4264-800c-3982f7eb54ff/69668105746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d213b64-0a4a-4d90-a8d1-178d19f26270/vakunedakoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://givetupazowo.onlinewebshop.net/atropin_sulfat_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigetolerup.epizy.com/benzodiazepines_side_effects.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77270039-b0da-4468-993f-0b0a2ccb057e/68167388423.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BE 5668 bytes
SHA-256: 94e4a05f0467e57e4095e28cbbd52209c1464834ca6ce2d42223228016956c16
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2B 12968 bytes
SHA-256: 8afd51ff64fcb52c57e4d58678a9fb28cc359946a49d61acdab40622eda3c8e8
font_02_sfnt_off00011570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11570 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 13873d145b8da2256cc9aff7ec32aedf7dd7de0e65fabb376e0f91dd1eea3996