Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0adb75548efaea5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-03-23 20:48:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 048c03896840aab454e2f96efbb235e3 SHA-1: 55ecb7989d6d660a35d8dd173b8cd1c434b81b29 SHA-256: 0adb75548efaea5b0399e058b1e5d58f1c21f1be91413d4ade26d8dd57f395d9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO spam. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+primary+deviance+criminology PDF link annotation
    • https://bolojowugupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886087/5155708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavujaxubuxabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/magana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofudovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136092117/rixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prequester.online/1799365366zljih.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccannoz.club/remington_700_long_range_6.5_creedmooru70g8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tosilura/yif8inp/15228324373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezfix.asia/bewukopezadivutafetakix122ap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagunafine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363358/kojuture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wuwoxegolewa/fjhujbD/super_tank_blitz_mod_apk_1._1._5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geniusenglish.space/lalopuvobif2t5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuimag.ru/17739962455nngzv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sigidezok/gcg5o2I/tefupukazuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://65d0a56f-4074-4e8f-9acc-29e6f8e8f663.filesusr.com/ugd/37655d_6e0dbbf536cd452ba77b2e5a520676c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8e303d0-f350-43d2-b7c3-f886ef13ec25.filesusr.com/ugd/1bb397_52cc8f0b89194e7d9ed3f6f93186cf59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d32a17ce-02a7-48e4-9620-5af5d30d35b1/ford_mustang_mach_e_interior_dimensions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://387a498e-9551-4239-9507-3183ba214552.filesusr.com/ugd/cd403b_d25ed939880c47f6b7c96f32fb05ca30.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://550dfcec-0280-4316-a0d5-68b74a7a20b9.filesusr.com/ugd/f59309_f4bf4aebdaa341d4908c957f04ce3d35.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/339dad3f-34ea-44e2-a1ae-630ab1384c57/noxugijukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://761e60ea-5e0e-4c43-b4c2-f6a9045c608d.filesusr.com/ugd/545033_3947ef7ddf8c4245bc539db7cbcb6efc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7095e710-59ac-4d27-8a5a-f3bbcaf65deb.filesusr.com/ugd/418e76_c8d07c4492514217a8a95d266325c6ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71bfc0c6-4bef-405a-aee6-9e9dcaab3d12.filesusr.com/ugd/708cfd_b71fdbafabb54af29fa325c04ca7101e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67bb8873-ca08-4da4-87c0-60a8072ebff6.filesusr.com/ugd/a838c0_992ba6b1aaf64cc5a2151276ce54ede0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9fbaa0db-fe9e-443e-b503-3d02ea494c21.filesusr.com/ugd/d417e9_e62a37af97694c17a6e8b24f6d7a4b3e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://48cc712b-de5e-493e-a198-f8962849e22b.filesusr.com/ugd/d2751c_8b9bd3fc1e094b61a76f4343f9f2cc6d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/502b6d5a-ad98-4524-aaaf-2f9fa5e87942/takefesob.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_off0000f1e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E9 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4df8818c7f115492ad6aefea50c87ee5f651504e8f282d4bae6885ea11ab69
font_01_sfnt_off0001051d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051D 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 720e441fde4fd0a8f8426099c20023d26afcb310819a9013707afa8286a0a0d8