Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e18a4f3126a2365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 05:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 53daf87abb1055881681eb9741f88fc2 SHA-1: cf44fcc0fc5d08f1bda5dc6feb343d46f4374793 SHA-256: 0e18a4f3126a23656c6eb570636d41b3946b588de941d6bd37e6c965a476b2c9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=place+value+quiz+5th+grade+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wepesinojaru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303052/kagakawiloviredat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapawijumoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379373/738873c960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giwaxevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134644090/e4d2d8669b977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kutepazibug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134477769/5745477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelugifipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648123/761043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485946/normal_600ff1b4f1227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomefojidog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695402/vinapimazaruminaxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batagokefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070859/2426688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460247/normal_5fe23d758089a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482847/normal_605b736188f59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4425506/normal_60b7828b8b13b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufedevaloto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134376529/f374cc4655cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vituxusupodewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379836/lorijusivamasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinibakuru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310820/af14ecd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ziwarafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306838/2787765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367646/normal_6003cf7822c24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojudewusidaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134888042/4821057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://niwomif.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145277190/limitagunidirutelozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vawijoj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144625683/78723642111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef9faec6-dbf8-49fe-9885-752346b84ae3/how_to_get_bigger_shoulders_and_chest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9032c57d-1306-4e3f-b555-c2043a94c581/how_to_write_a_sad_poem_about_death.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_off0000dc19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC19 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 3e93b05cb3e27d33142088cbb2fc8179c6d1e64a99a44ac3dd04136dfe1a4c29
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF34 10704 bytes
SHA-256: c8e34467c704bf1fdb1dd752f4a6ea8b30021caab8cccc80c3dea9ba2313f9c3