Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a1c455bea9e6a7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-04-05 15:42:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: ec00be7e055781ab410017d461d98bb0 SHA-1: 08cff0117e6911e2a9c3bf8c52b468bca454dd3f SHA-256: 0a1c455bea9e6a7b4243d093c8224592a523c58bd8a879ea81eac31362df2dce
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 an ML classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as part of a link farm, containing numerous external links, with the primary lure being a 'Berlin city map pdf download'. The presence of many external links, some on disposable hosting, suggests a campaign to distribute or redirect to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and present these links.

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=berlin+city+map+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://kenugizi.getenjoyment.net/kejulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bexefoboxevi/8hggiu5/73967362457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patodenum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657208/korigekugizosapozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/linaxezo/7FgiijK/kunijesakarezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojawuminusevob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694879/4563286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buvaboda/4igggig/bolixamutofusigotudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/radofufalam/ifWinHq/2_players_games_on_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xifasiv.getenjoyment.net/77261913525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebupemisopuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134706320/xokiriko-timasu-pizefi-wewoxedetiw.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/9d25f337-69d5-4544-922a-9724c887b41c/kosogijosazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51cc32a7-33b9-4435-9022-de4b20bb76fb/39212253106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d59285fe-8e1e-495e-87dd-cdf026d25b87/67639904814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e3c40fe-67a3-4152-b3b3-2716333acadd/sarixesunabuvonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeborawaleko.atwebpages.com/2007_mercury_9.9_4_stroke_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77c7c709-dcc5-487d-8fdc-e22032d5ef91/vagenila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2752866e-0d80-40e9-b2c3-69dd9f03981c/how_much_is_la_fitness_multi_club_membership.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb1ff2e5-db4a-4e69-80bf-ac0dac2e3f9a/brown_v._board_of_education_of_topeka_result.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75118ce5-45c2-4116-9068-cb73295c4042/36107103239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/94826206-52f4-4bad-a3eb-f7a39dfebbb0/udi_u818a_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b665e6e5-45b8-47be-991f-25ec96d35ac0/fun_writing_activities_for_middle_school.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_off0000e946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE946 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 06e2bd6cede6dc75ac0317890fba2190ad0aafa94e273a734ebabe52c9965812
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8C 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 1bcd55f46a4e9f9d36b053947d15ae9bd0ca987d5fef392371e6d47db2b1c82a