Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad8c1620cc017ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-02 04:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: b5a45d394460ad4a3d0457becef5c232 SHA-1: 5aa39a865d47983ccc6beedbe56af33d50be28f4 SHA-256: 1ad8c1620cc017ba9b03e26a5af5ac716a9e21596d7fb1b6a962363eda67b028
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of a link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially disguised as a COVID-19 certificate.

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://infrive.ru/pbw?utm_term=covid-19+medical+certificate+format+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459629/normal_5ffc577286394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379970/normal_606cde45d995b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juzunuxav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316531/sewewunexiwigagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467032/normal_6023cb500e3bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabixiwuvilaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681231/f86c69287ffcba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mawebexakonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390129/gixojek-xovemetodasatip-jerevevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samovibemajus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597991/12304af85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470980/normal_60369613c8e7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizakadaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491897/getoxa_tezutabane_sozinafisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414339/normal_6002c4b6f13df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489598/normal_6026669107f70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416672/normal_5fef5474352f6.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/2a449dd3-96fa-4767-b065-8c64f3acfeb8/7509183329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0354d44-a8fc-4cfb-82b8-5b488f006549/34774819996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc08d4ae-7b39-46f2-a775-088b25242224/how_to_reduce_stopping_phonological_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddc5cbc4-a982-45d7-a2af-d09e8170f97d/crazy_love_movie_1987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/267d6161-8f3e-44a4-bb85-8f07dbd351e7/19103725078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2093870-336a-4ec9-8b9f-44a7749c3085/48888454695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f0489eae-e280-45b5-abaa-5a38460549aa/78381005412.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_off0000f2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D1 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 1e21492e306375711d96c8416919c45616d494931998d1477a338411e56489c6
font_01_sfnt_off0001054a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054A 10968 bytes
SHA-256: a6af8f276b43368af1fa6faad87bf351ab5935474d875f621adcfa9ce424285a