Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 137ab139202530d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-03-10 08:07:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9bcae5de8606fdd4bf5b3a31c5cf717e SHA-1: dbfe8b4608e7d530718af94fb25bc140b82ce8a5 SHA-256: 137ab139202530d81e7459de13a61a8d12539b924482d25012ebb40bb1a90a58
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm for SEO purposes, likely a phishing lure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=c%25C3%25B4+d%25C3%25A2u+8+tu%25E1%25BB%2595i+tr%25E1%25BB%258Dn+b%25E1%25BB%2599+ph%25E1%25BA%25A7n+4. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristics strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=c%25C3%25B4+d%25C3%25A2u+8+tu%25E1%25BB%2595i+tr%25E1%25BB%258Dn+b%25E1%25BB%2599+ph%25E1%25BA%25A7n+4 PDF link annotation
    • https://tefegepivovopuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311357/4004500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xokebuzizo/hg3icij/hp_smart_app_download_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nifirasevaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134756957/87744327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naziwixolagu/hhcbNhe/pupps_rash_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lepagesali/y8jeYBI/tatidurazovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jizotigop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874082/7033456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pitadewedobu/ijjgwha/53251957499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renokogepebamon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696434/lafidelotodagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirofopafu/81986233544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakajoziwibi/tencent_game_loop_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vobuturinivi/tivoxepugasosifodebajiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fovezewi/41730442823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fofeguj/94159635482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e67f335d-def2-43cf-a652-8e5a72e39f52/2013_dodge_charger_rt_specs_0-60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sitok/70438108022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/solonebosop/hoover_floormate_spinscrub_replacement_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xomepixo/ohms_law_worksheet_regents_physics_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be0ea119-704f-4214-82ba-964e9d3a62c2/53018355710.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_off00012be7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE7 6080 bytes
SHA-256: a6493704b0b6fe8f5a75bdb987675ce45b61c6f5b5e89642d3a97263cbb96302
font_01_sfnt_off00013eba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EBA 23216 bytes
SHA-256: f3d8340afb9b7f58280d120a2e285a57476c679b70ae91692780a60bcb252d05