Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e22f9f255337865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-05-14 17:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 0059cce8791276a96238bf4d3bad3c21 SHA-1: 41405f279af73b0d72e0e5eab866cb82b684244a SHA-256: 0e22f9f255337865b446429cafdf36ef05e05aebc43674610d72f2250de33f24
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains multiple links to external websites, including one identified as a 'PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK' pointing to 'http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/gnostic_gospels_list5dowi.pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links and the heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates linking to malicious 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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/wb?keyword=kenmore%20ultra%20wash%20quiet%20guard%20standard%20manual PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389127/normal_6000d07b4d14c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegegraduatecentraldating.com/murottal_al_kahf_mishary_rashidfi034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontlegko.info/pozerigalnu22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375708/normal_6018b03b4e698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411700/normal_602c413b8f2b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420431/normal_60412016e7b97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449001/normal_5fcc6a6ac40a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karnaval.host/8596753834xjk5v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://front-glass.website/45828459091c1sm9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxilenusip.mypressonline.com/72740899070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezlice.ru/827468713837pabf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odemebayisitrafik.com/jorugozeleximidurek7lfco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445736/normal_5fedbcbf90a7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/gnostic_gospels_list5dowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366402/normal_6000e9b0de57a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekovag.mypressonline.com/how_to_remove_hot_tub_control_panel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rawenspant.online/net_current_assets_on_balance_sheetjc4kq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376382/normal_6012a6b6810bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486548/normal_5ff4f8b1b3761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417406/normal_6059e8074d319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475852/normal_605fd57c30ae5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xogunajeraxuda.mywebcommunity.org/arqueologia_mexicana_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369914/normal_6032c9c370fd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://merovuditipin.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_reset_rosetta_stone_progress.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegubom.atwebpages.com/tascam_dr-05x_portable_digital_recorder_reviews.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_off0000e786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE786 5428 bytes
SHA-256: f1d5fa50723879ddf3c5854acd102414c50590f550d8d305bc32d2ee4b7394c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D7 11920 bytes
SHA-256: aec31ec92cd190f72a4b91de2a1eb27a26f3f20de136c4163c8556fec4fcf6d1