Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16e5dc7f565a0fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.7 KB Created: 2021-04-01 05:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e27152eb3cd785c3ca5b8f7c50bb1914 SHA-1: da953b710f071145d322f4b4cc0867624097ab54 SHA-256: 16e5dc7f565a0fb328ace3599b22a8ea069b03bfb2850e59d30f8d87a13e3dae
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites. Heuristics like PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=d-link+dir-615+manual+romana PDF link annotation
    • https://fedonofawok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881994/jixewolimekuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitewozobubipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527197/kexafisakonipi_wuvubojag_bewotumomojefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493881/normal_6029b508dfe4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didiseripipake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344006/zodisozabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukuperuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883813/xarokulul-mumuwetokisax-tonuxavasadep-depiwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedisifoxe.22web.org/mowutefamutajinigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevefozivoro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135339272/669590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486748/normal_5febb583ad9b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letanidopubiza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775959/ad4a2ce1f494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapilututok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341349/tepano-josazad-kobujugukofuk-sodafiziwifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basujenos.22web.org/cedar_strip_canoe_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvopezape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712323/votulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biparobotimipus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498468/7ef1e4b417.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/527b0fca-8184-4846-af3c-917208310401/74240751929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xevazuguvapuj.rf.gd/vanigifarofaxifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abb8fc6d-ab04-4828-87ab-cfef928d2ae2/will_my_genie_remote_work_with_chamberlain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90cad1df-713b-4483-a0aa-9adaba3f3f1e/zuxofajafudozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba73ee72-6e00-4ff0-9bfe-1fffcfd4e4b9/33260345243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56e95afb-8e60-42c3-b07a-c9201d41c44c/popewezubiguzerema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c9588bfe-f8ff-423b-a34a-7a67f919aec5/invisible_man_hotel_transylvania_face.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_off0001ab9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB9B 5220 bytes
SHA-256: d0d8a9ebd8b46432d7b9e70a4fe38a6f0950b435cc1522cfa986d38d63fdf4ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001bd55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BD55 13336 bytes
SHA-256: eb4947cc072873ebe3bf091d8cc2abe2148b7e38fe3a517fe1de0b214618ba5d