Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f740a2cfe996688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-04-04 00:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 572f45526cc482537f7b8d0586392901 SHA-1: c5910e1787ee29e77577fca3a0b9fc516fa5a08c SHA-256: 0f740a2cfe996688300c34ed34b953c298fbba36d35a7b5c56acb62469eb0d87
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing operation. ClamAV also detected it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to serve further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/123?utm_term=consumer+reports+cars+free+online PDF link annotation
    • http://fijexojor.getenjoyment.net/ap_grama_sachivalayam_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netewe8.xyz/77181986542gup48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psylath.com/7348105249030ao2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vakiduju/TFV4zec/elite_killer_swat_gameplay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tononapiwaso/gjugigg/1919366461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysfix.ru/highest_cr_monster_in_pathfinderik3mk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zimidenex/iejiiiz/happy_color_color_by_number_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gubixazolela.sportsontheweb.net/why_is_my_gas_stove_beeping.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuzinirumawe/gjejycM/dj_horn_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/42955240056r6lcz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frukt.fun/how_to_recondition_a_ryobi_18v_batteryfoopg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numberoone.xyz/30956752580jc0gg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://97a45c9e-1ab5-462a-bfe2-fded34b9a8b9.filesusr.com/ugd/b50c55_45c15c30fb004543a4e1bb7311d8ef5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://357b8bef-7330-4cfe-b31d-389db25c4d5a.filesusr.com/ugd/4c76bf_f0e6e4ca46ba4bc2acb67ded36c3b868.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52a72965-a6d2-471e-b66a-59a59a4d663b.filesusr.com/ugd/e643da_0337d1f98083460eb30297ff49b1a99f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://183cab0c-2e2b-44e6-b55a-0f82cb58e578.filesusr.com/ugd/133137_9d27b7d8f2404ea7b172687b1d2685cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f0754e2-f0c4-47db-826b-83042027646c.filesusr.com/ugd/7a11b0_d7e618aac5f34302872f33ff1be166e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bivojeda.atwebpages.com/76348588655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4bedd8b-a3e9-4aa8-9751-a6fde4035b7e.filesusr.com/ugd/037f08_1082368c46784a9f92089ca8c993a88e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e25b5f36-ee09-4010-8803-019b2853a23b.filesusr.com/ugd/c34eac_0abdb4d86ed34514b9b30d59aef0ccce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://25cf7bc6-226b-4013-96fa-c64d334b7dac.filesusr.com/ugd/317e1a_33ebfdb1f5944f91b3bb4bf951e0a422.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2987c0f4-171e-4473-b3f1-a5468658115b.filesusr.com/ugd/75ff8a_33cbfc9811a647a89cf4b4c86daa321d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF151 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 94c72dcbbd0c390600e1351f558dc81c0d0747ca3add8cd21b3c3f47b329a339
font_01_sfnt_off0001026e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026E 11472 bytes
SHA-256: e1152a8899b8bb0385e640265fbf43088443ee153454921a4f2500843c2916fc