Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab4c37b16020074…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-04-12 14:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a973e6a91ba448db5faec03521a48cc0 SHA-1: 20c5692fa2d7ef4dde423a1dae4d476bb98bac24 SHA-256: 1ab4c37b160200748ca7c8869a28c1f2317b730ae5dc041fb81aec4f5e0c33e0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a PDF phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM specifically flags this behavior, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/strik?utm_term=wendy%2527s+spicy+nuggets+nutrition+facts PDF link annotation
    • http://pidopefajo.22web.org/68688361212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paxosij.mygamesonline.org/bipitopopuzepadopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382618/normal_601a059e19ed4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doridusa.medianewsonline.com/anatomy_and_physiology_of_the_kidney.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449419/normal_60233838e979d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woxuruko.medianewsonline.com/19662231013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piwulefimer.22web.org/how_to_get_pet_safe_collar_off.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369332/normal_5fd7f4fc41b4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427811/normal_600d8760947fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467564/normal_60157fd4eff58.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/9ffd4696-77de-4205-b80a-f05d628d114b/dinedonaxineruguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xasexaxalu.epizy.com/9002053134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukokovevaz.atwebpages.com/castellan_fisicoquimica_2da_edicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91ba4d08-21da-49c5-8e32-86e69a45593d/wordpress_electronics_ecommerce_themes_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zujisofivo.onlinewebshop.net/gutizesaxaxutirafari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebesudanolo/transformational_leadership_examples_in_social_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78a2d839-f6d6-4982-817e-cb24c0bd7c57/himno_nacional_de_honduras_con_letra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/864d1c17-d502-45f9-9da7-73330ab8efac/gijibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30810bd6-61f7-4188-8238-25a0a5de4266/how_to_type_in_google_docs_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/negonanopix/autoit_script_for_file_in_ie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35252528-f55f-413b-b6b8-e840728ea9eb/kukibodadoxizaw.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_off00010607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10607 5440 bytes
SHA-256: a85f9c6093f5086fc7ecd0419ece9e5e5294a0fcdb45ebc137396f13abd02c1f
font_01_sfnt_off000118b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B1 12620 bytes
SHA-256: ed3eedf3d6f71264da5e9b8344191f1939c47b8e4926a32460de474df22071d6