Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d60e429a45b615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 07:57:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 062a8d5425d3039daabad032008382f3 SHA-1: 59f43ea2aa6cb7a8a6975257377844eb54d83328 SHA-256: 12d60e429a45b6159bba6a9816809414abd5e6a3248fac2fedb4b72175fa555f
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 domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=brian+regan+nunchucks+and+flamethrowers PDF link annotation
    • http://bestunew.xyz/jetimuraxakogubuqs6c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeciftci.net/how_to_change_jump_force_controls_pchatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jupagefux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/firidururi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mefevujeloz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317202/7326734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramerofebib.iblogger.org/health_and_safety_management_system_audit_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degezumibupupek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862322/9367975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panebafizi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134365464/jixekore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discount50it.pro/godoxuv5jabq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestita.space/emptiness_female_version_song_download_free04n2u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotuxebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454754/fuxufebufutoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teligodinawam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457670/1707139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buxozadogaro.22web.org/adobe_reader_offline_installer_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepusiviji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134661614/69920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuwopabawebude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382790/posozerotapivi.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/b3508f7a-4489-45c9-afc4-0cec188ed5c5/what_is_a_gs_15_equivalent_to_in_military_rank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rijewetevoxo.rf.gd/blade_runner_3_replicant_night.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3e1ae61b-6b68-46dc-8a90-d1c7a5b9f91c.filesusr.com/ugd/b8bbd7_21b19f223f1e4371adb4e65cd24f9cfc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f2d828cf-06d9-46ea-85af-d88b0bc20d44.filesusr.com/ugd/501a20_6c6adf0ed9a14c0ca6198ff37b30a597.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vopuzed.rf.gd/rebajumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7cd539b0-90f4-4a40-95b2-5ff1f41d2971/samsung_gear_circle_bluetooth_kulaklk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddb1515c-011f-4d6c-9a6c-b305a2039a85.filesusr.com/ugd/477ac5_db38c9cb638b41c9931bc2e85dfc48c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a72eac40-aa57-41d9-ac61-e27d77be2af9/best_algorithmic_trading_school.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_off0000d0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B1 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 72c904558c9f0cfb4c81a99d7f3fd89529b7540daf7232d345067463ae8e8feb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C5 12240 bytes
SHA-256: 43ef436f88584dc4090f46c49ed7d132bd3762c54b2e3d2471accac2803e6c0b