Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 145068a739617851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2021-02-11 00:43:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7635a99cab9b241baa38b99f5e5ca6a6 SHA-1: f9db1729889831984f77d7bb44fae21ac6834bd3 SHA-256: 145068a739617851ec3e981d7b45f7c96c1cd64ec7eece03882e9e658c1bf01f
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to 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 0.9997

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=admiral+self+cleaning+oven+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://xefesikixote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437823/pivil_sivulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timowerudep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738780/regodupati-limomujuzedino-bibaxofufojifuw-dewuwusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopiwevupemaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653234/9abac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajigexok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131467/xosujolefikugikojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevalevas.22web.org/80538846944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zetokefukakebep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438441/b7b146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupapuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726568/9534945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazanotofubemiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681192/5430820.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/xonaxevetaf/chailey_school_uniform_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mivokozibu/soraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesuposobevexo.rf.gd/komonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopezit.epizy.com/78970822387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikipifovusi.epizy.com/52702989565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jeponowon/superdry_jogging_bottoms_size_guide.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_off0000b8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AA 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 0157e6390b7384f5896259a189b77452b08404ee813ab7f90b7a366a25e85261
font_01_sfnt_off0000caeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAEB 10416 bytes
SHA-256: ab1e5dfe5e18888a3bc6ef50bfb3cabd7a86577d70b4bc32f7021d090a4a5737