Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1655b2fd3ff2be8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-04-21 10:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: fe98f902766fe6d2fe7d114c744fcf56 SHA-1: 22bd54276c9cfe7ae05ad40fe938b54170233658 SHA-256: 1655b2fd3ff2be8e0a1772a1b06d1df1a098e5ee62acd3c13d1d6379f6633910
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern appears to be leveraging these links for phishing or to serve as a distribution point for further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=computer+networking+problems+and+solutions+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xipitufekaru/jONi5OV/nudavunifutopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snegny.com/alphabet_design_wallpaper_freemrs1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xixemoxutosiseg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473276/vuxilirelega-mufazomewo-doralumo-jasuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasezarovatif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134858127/f6bbe136b18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dufadijikog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325035/zuniwugudadirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikenanevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589255/742953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dosakupu/hjwgcFL/92094132011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easylearning.space/cien_aos_de_soledad_de_gabriel_garcia_marquez_resumenwfhbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dronextactical.xyz/how_to_use_a_miter_box_to_cut_door_trimv15qn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459628/normal_606354d64f67c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415936/normal_6022b20e66ffa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://republvinb.fun/101040773662fgor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlas-copco.su/atlas_copco_fd30_air_dryer_manualprxvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovikojux/iiif5BJ/farm_pet_rescue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383801/normal_603512c8d9c0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mawajajapok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353668/28dfe203ca51b07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470038/normal_604e7b2f27d73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divewamekavese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860060/59d7bedfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446494/normal_6002db1074e9b.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/bezegoluzose/96141892351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tigewibejageju/watufibosodufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jajuzasalikirut/margin_of_safety_seth_klarman_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vufupu/canon_mf3010_printer_driver_for_xp.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_off0001043b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043B 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 21e2c4df089b1137e6601952a2496294b13e15fbf975b197655202dfe9ce4f78
font_01_sfnt_off0001171d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171D 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 5f66ee983173e11454d1c97f17959aaddbac4b72e2b234f5e01a6eaf58ca7f0d