Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a639c4e623abc8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.3 KB Created: 2021-06-07 19:56:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3f792c06852d53dbd18405182056417c SHA-1: b73e8cb96350dcf0ada19b1ce57b564422d62bc1 SHA-256: 0a639c4e623abc8dc1041a81d2684a76962d70c889b45f0edd92da2645c55c6d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV also detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'password-protected archive' lure indicates an attempt to bypass security controls by encrypting the payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/123?utm_term=spss+amos+18+software+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467285/normal_5fd37fb6cc89c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489440/normal_6027cb1a100b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zogazakuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636678/jisibet-gipit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivepolimuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813401/c50dbdc4db61db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larikizog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071312/7d0a1c40ec8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380700/normal_601294dbca160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beroloxubotuze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775422/dabetoderezuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poriveba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316211/naruxisi_vofeda_papezupupiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuzupenaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454165/6125830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemavepudobug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108610/da7b89d21109ed7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423752/normal_6024306b3e2ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501204/normal_600f4dccae690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidanarud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969336/7652317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nowefuro.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144596133/75774022776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96abc232-a8b3-42ca-88c8-d27cdbd2f375/free_download_daemon_tools_lite_for_windows_7_32_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabumur.pbworks.com/f/68809908357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lururefisu.pbworks.com/f/67685683450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14cbc446-169e-458c-9786-4eadbe1daf92/88517079399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xosufixemuf.pbworks.com/f/seasonaire_6_in_1_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3eb27459-7b19-4309-9860-2c7c635a9139/the_critic_cartoon_jurassic_park.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popuwepux.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144590688/37108666869.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A32 3212 bytes
SHA-256: 528ee47c243118b913c0ee364da70a182c299faf9a111cb8e5abdca4e6e04309
font_01_sfnt_off000155b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155B8 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff7c2b6bba40df1a976e09e1448a7671db4d7f96bb321f6ffa6eb2594f2a3b3
font_02_sfnt_off00016847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16847 13476 bytes
SHA-256: bf9d352ae9649b7225fda937f0c52b58c78e56823c3ade17490638892c71c725
font_03_sfnt_off000194a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x194A0 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 71fec8a3adfe41455811528c654ef740a0d97889ddd19e39e153b04b7507b7f0