Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18b36b76ed1f2622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-05-04 03:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 95ad490748db26f53196ab1cf2129bef SHA-1: 224d80dd48494730aafcaac0ee8891fc2350a7c5 SHA-256: 18b36b76ed1f2622ebd9661558eb94f13d0bca5f39231e3ab05ca4191a20a0eb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of a redirector URL and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

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.
  • 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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=hbs+mba+salaries PDF link annotation
    • https://ramaxudefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042793/metevirivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daradila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438164/lesote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savibivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381036/7449921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudiduku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452825/bojukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goxivomibivufuv.mywebcommunity.org/malepegijawovusila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midarujiwuvi.mygamesonline.org/how_to_reset_a_fx-115es_plus_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jekodijup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490718/a6bca083ae8b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faniruwesil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135993686/9626275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takokapaxuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968961/bovuno_fepes_xumozetuzefe_fenopumozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejunuzegakikuv.mypressonline.com/xiperema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lavisekenesavof.myartsonline.com/muwefilusaxojudozume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lumixi/vba_format_cell_background_color.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/silubebebefuju/administrative_and_office_management_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zepifudoxapo/nagizilerafilokozile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9eaa565e-fb97-40b4-b096-d6760803f699.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_f55309de3b974383967309eb75388c98.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://065b66ee-25d8-4381-b309-094abc4d823c.filesusr.com/ugd/2703e6_f358a0e206774a17bf2228dddde6f9ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rutufokedizon/bosch_washer_dryer_manual_exxcel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1d812fcc-cfc3-4558-a870-56fc5b7f4c2e.filesusr.com/ugd/754d94_729ef26313f24c038e52e9cf258d4a81.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifesu/best_ad_free_alarm_clock_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2fe464c-28d1-4db8-bb2d-552ad9bc2f4d.filesusr.com/ugd/941bb1_f84279751cb6459a818d00762b0400af.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000ed70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED70 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 2e8ee5855bebded6393187a78668cd5852dfb9f32d991f5aba519a4478c301f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE12 10832 bytes
SHA-256: e3d84da6da8be25109857b5eeb9d329480ebb0f190085dedae36829ea49c4ed6