Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099ae9f2988cd134…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-03-19 06:05:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: ba7d4f510a35588804bfb9417eb4c13d SHA-1: 220c786cb113312d4ec2c36039c71fcab0663935 SHA-256: 099ae9f2988cd13455b838108ac3787ccd1d1fd0f4b0700fc71d8e82a267ebba
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a phishing or SEO spam campaign. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=le+beau+livre+de+l+astronomie+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446492/normal_6034706c6423b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bumogekatagod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776321/6c6d1431f1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486772/normal_603c47a9e5f2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmostil.top/74461421244se0qn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapunilak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134506399/radibif_lonemup_wibak_pepujogeroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zavegaligap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499553/fexegosidutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puziwurawube.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871408/2d3830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namelesssouth.xyz/houseparty_logo_transparentw32l4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489050/normal_602b92fe0ba35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzufurabobozu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304208/gapefubukuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374177/normal_604e8a5edd5d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4492897/normal_60024419cc280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xirejefeju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723985/lomulesuwujodukifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rozivoladavabog.iblogger.org/pokeboduwosudelegiwexure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfds.in/stock_market_closed_on_martin_luther_king_day9zb95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04d21640-bcb2-46f5-86e0-364d27235259/wasuzutibuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vafodesige.epizy.com/41497862951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekokegam.rf.gd/pogupetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c13e370-2bae-4d6c-b13c-c0da80abb158/wozejutuzonojonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubumoran.rf.gd/lasting_power_of_attorney_guide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e64b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64B 5208 bytes
SHA-256: b36a2eb09ebce9867bb3a8715f1f7abaa224ec6b60c32225f16768ae60edf4ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E1 12256 bytes
SHA-256: fe669119cbdce0d77f93c53b99de894c730990b46b8b469fc91be54a7e5538bd
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e