Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a76befb27d2103c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-11-18 05:39:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8d5f4921571e8e76f4d984c4ac97e600 SHA-1: 1411990b60824eae8c784d88844d69562b57791f SHA-256: 1a76befb27d2103c0ba60f08d47ba52766e67eaf687f3af942bdd88d48e03bd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO spam or phishing campaigns. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://traffset.ru/123?utm_term=derivation+of+bragg%2527s+law+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365549/normal_5f8db24b8c22c.pdf
    • https://degujipimisa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453395/nonazotun.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473432/normal_5faec50fd4930.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374696/normal_5f9cb72b4a2b2.pdf
    • https://givexikiduxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398224/podud_peres_bupitinesalojew.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gonima/89514209043.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuxutedi/sopefipiloruli.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72b3e179-ad05-4f95-8641-e025e49f91fb/durob.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8eb1324d-24bb-477f-af7a-85ddcedd1ee2/bojatodoxija.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1197c30-7e8b-4035-95cd-047c3c09b456/vikefedidorepejiwalusidor.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gupuso/20540891615.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/28cff572-19a8-485b-bd98-bff42391bc1f/simone_browne_dark_matters.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb2a.bin
60ebae812b44b7344486332d15acd26a608fee3995bf652ce78e26a53372a361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB2A 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de27.bin
78aaf0ea69c6bba9171fffd79ccc8fa244db1be5a54325248f25a17977529c04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE27 11808 bytes