Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13ca7de0d1662e26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-03-17 11:01:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 358bcda527ece5244f2aa1b801ecf62b SHA-1: 78f524cc35adc9e5eb2c47d459aa10ec864cc90a SHA-256: 13ca7de0d1662e26d4fa1ae8dce4d7cbec6b792df8628898e81beeabad808ec0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, forming a link farm hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to search queries, aiming to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+you+say+mandarin+orange+in+portuguese PDF link annotation
    • http://kovuzaxaf.medianewsonline.com/87108341454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443608/normal_5fdba21e87df5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bit7.top/pebito7yliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479673/normal_601b88ec2ef9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489057/normal_600a3eb87a7d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spainwow.pro/cub_cadet_super_lt_1554_valuetulr2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jefuvumerusew.getenjoyment.net/graphing_lines_slope_intercept_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganedoxumizaj.sportsontheweb.net/1286341285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesakud.mypressonline.com/cours_de_chinois.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevukavotidu.getenjoyment.net/mainstay_computer_desk_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuvabadiredowa.getenjoyment.net/31032493344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalgood.space/sonoresedafedarizedr2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462980/normal_5fd7794e2ee3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483587/normal_6045f64e6f74d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog-millionaire.buzz/pretties_scott_westerfelderu4t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ced6af22-cf5f-4df0-9cd6-2d424634d287.filesusr.com/ugd/3eed2b_87d8efabcf394bd3bdb98f5a92d97b57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1094d5c0-a920-47c7-a1de-7e2d56a92d84.filesusr.com/ugd/47b1e8_89bfd18a6a904b1ea90bcb1995b72758.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e93f678-3754-4df0-af56-03757ded320b/xakejakurowidamikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4454cc88-256b-48ad-9013-c0414c72072d.filesusr.com/ugd/67e251_d8b006d875f84b5d9b718557f680e88b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nojikigor.myartsonline.com/allophones_of_one_phoneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c784d933-550a-409d-8d22-593f4749dcbe/honeywell_rth2300_installation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimixof.onlinewebshop.net/how_do_you_know_if_your_flame_sensor_is_bad.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF82 5400 bytes
SHA-256: a743b74c890dad59f5918ca01a3f2db951214ae381d03899ac0977a0a2eff479
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E5 11696 bytes
SHA-256: 5861dbd4041a94461ee241235127889021e7cf83640e6e8f52f690a5e3001c6a
font_02_sfnt_off00011958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11958 16068 bytes
SHA-256: bd4ec210b6f0bed3603b49d512cd9a08d3e9d1e81fcf206800274a46106400dd