Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1187028f360a24d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.3 KB Created: 2021-04-03 15:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 267d6645dccdf9d1cbe40880d1137394 SHA-1: a23cb6356533d2d7ca1eb49d205e8d91f958e5c2 SHA-256: 1187028f360a24d39a59fbc0876d61b37305d8e898dd9d25367b6c2190e025ec
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 pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or SEO spamming operation. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a potential for redirecting users to malicious sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kuzutuzo.ru/aws?utm_term=honeywell+1300g+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377938/normal_6058c1b6c2e1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenejiremox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969141/3050634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387410/normal_6017189b60405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412396/normal_603efe639b8cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawuzifelive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041442/4bd53f5bac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368466/normal_60384816925a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petojasunegoda.iblogger.org/puzavenoximotumawuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388274/normal_5fd0503c489dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zozabamefopofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234868/napuku-bizujefifila-fasuwegotavev-borujowogupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pubofumoxo.scienceontheweb.net/60181284380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c4e5608-4144-41ed-8351-9635d7072603/gps_garmin_nuvi_3597_lm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1510ebc-c166-492e-b1ad-7de754fb1678/29735695714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakusidoler.epizy.com/xojumoguvexinadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/890f3ac0-ecf1-4531-b2a6-2626d3b11daf/44034286413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xexerekiw.rf.gd/active_and_passive_voice_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/481cd5fb-9e87-4660-87f3-7d44948164c2/22113046549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d585d4d6-6c0a-4cca-ad2d-1764a352ea6c/sketchup_2019_download_free_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favilogas.rf.gd/o_level_english_listening_comprehension_2014_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d22c8e3-a502-49c2-9e9a-c29c2985e740/what_type_of_jobs_pay_6_figures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rukosivujuxu.atwebpages.com/what_is_a_subacute_rehabilitation_facility.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BC0 4432 bytes
SHA-256: 594a63db1a538b23d65b70297625593d6382fe55c9f9ef3d67d8a03d06bff55a
font_01_sfnt_off00017b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B3E 5600 bytes
SHA-256: bd71e374ea15b21503f15e582a64bfb40f201e4d3d50664c0de4ba0cdb72d9b4
font_02_sfnt_off00018e6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E6D 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 5e37afe0b81006108376192ae5f3e163b8c840a3cc24cb454a9a3fef59ae98c1