Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a8ff3770e33531a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-03-26 09:45:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 6e516d1c3ed1f0ed855d0b06a5f9893d SHA-1: aa2498a68d040689a319615297cd776567c771d9 SHA-256: 0a8ff3770e33531abec4956690218992d1208d0cd4729f828df600faa17ec9b0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=adverb+adjective+collocations+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rezisekuvaz.mypressonline.com/miller_250_welder_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pibilebomek/fxieWea/zemegovuduxunetotateri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dusibarupuguli.medianewsonline.com/pinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radogomi.mygamesonline.org/how_to_learn_philosophy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jojojidatun/gejjji8/noponosukepaxalinibixotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xolanikipiz/jb86hbi/28766758086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pugirunosamo/7eihcid/ktm_1290_super_duke_tank_protector.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9526c93a-d340-4dca-b5fd-2864ff0888c4.filesusr.com/ugd/4c3d6a_5d71fc4d07b64e4894e46877a51b4270.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4fd7ac12-06e8-439c-96a9-7636004ccb32.filesusr.com/ugd/9554ab_3473dfa7b4a44974b2b59cc2b249be5a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c155e88-7dd3-40d1-9179-54c31dbd800c/82506612616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://82f7a8bd-e2a3-46ec-bdf8-dd4727f017fb.filesusr.com/ugd/a90de3_fefbf24f604348878c50b24824f9f410.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://899154e9-876a-4ab4-94d5-c8ef2aed10f2.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf9ad_b753188f9e7d4e14be06688ef0be6d8d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc6b22d1-fd3c-476a-b8f1-b0505981f591.filesusr.com/ugd/ab5adf_63d6808416cc4c9ea602a02390ed8a7f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0eb0267b-c2fd-4bca-bd4b-9945d0f89e56/lg_air_conditioner_remote_control_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e162487c-098c-4e25-ac38-2b013cf83b61/woledefuwerivarara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7348621d-c853-4f20-aaaf-3d9727284747/nissan_forklift_parts_manual_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9cfe8934-cc69-4f76-a0d0-2e9849ea4530.filesusr.com/ugd/fd9558_183a014761b34003b546e387ed711c77.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lopafulobitap.atwebpages.com/algebra_1_common_core_pearson_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://49550882-97ce-44db-a38b-6e383bb81149.filesusr.com/ugd/062c90_e56f6c30d7f94354a1caff1c0551f503.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35e1cc1d-5f6c-4a41-9b1b-b9ae8dddc97a.filesusr.com/ugd/351eee_da458d4c68a04db8aa70b5dd9358fe35.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d52b5277-0d8f-4044-bfcb-1fd622a22603/what_is_meant_by_culture_shock.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc1aba0b-e972-435c-9472-a77f1dd61fde/what_are_newtons_3_laws_of_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sifebitufol.onlinewebshop.net/assembly_language_step_by_step_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e1902e0-379d-4374-859b-b482fb816805/kofuzufizezidijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b53d52d-c57a-488d-a733-dc139aa7f332/xapixatiwivetuferuri.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_off00014b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B0D 5484 bytes
SHA-256: a980734c52b8ba6f9e6ce9fa623ea885313c094bef3b89468f7c5e37378f92fc
font_01_sfnt_off00015dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DCD 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 12e92a312759d3a904b14b924a748a9d48b0a1816582139bd5507d0d99feb490