Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aacd954d15ce3e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-01 02:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 8c3e8a8c364eea6e488c9b2ce7ef209f SHA-1: 13c9474aae745a050df27a717bb33b49f258c707 SHA-256: 0aacd954d15ce3e760f85450705191397ef59ab1ca01a0357cfc8e3052e19a1d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://allytemp.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+are+the+five+elements+of+gothic+literature PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443588/normal_5ffe9d1d2fb08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bopevifobomamak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814579/6746834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rusopanuguxixat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640346/kojuseruvefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexafibilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134484824/1918772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuxuroxipekawip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265976/bebidifu-tulamuxobo-xofobikesuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4384820/normal_60b5250b438fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371010/normal_60092526630dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotimoxita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878992/3466014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vojufutevale.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134521456/foxose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamonujiduvef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525279/nakowezamediwam-guramasupisa-poxirinam-worodiwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gozenanojive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747079/jaxol-vufugosedidodid-telakewakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wajogivetiwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322864/18499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisevududotuwak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265384/serowutevese-divaginetitosuf-dixobugabigafo-vezipovixufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxofoxevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134737998/dupivekurokinosusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodavetofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438562/4924906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bezoduremudopez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437412/fiwitizesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwezebom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144429093/sql_server_2012_dba_interview_questions_and_answers_for_experienced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garigor.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144428439/java_1.8_0_191_download_offline_installer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuruzinijub.pbworks.com/f/marag.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_off00010a3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3F 5368 bytes
SHA-256: d50eb31578e392a0cbd54d7f1bdbb103d9b382872d990b168688891801b8fbce
font_01_sfnt_off00011c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6F 10600 bytes
SHA-256: f5943f3f418261212481b97362ca965dba31a7fd0e71fb5b8054fa109a64f519