Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b80304c5b546af3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-03-28 06:55:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a7e2ed0bd67612a3ee083cdd10af87ee SHA-1: 7fc122f04018eb0661d9a8439435660d0223abb3 SHA-256: 1b80304c5b546af3170127ef2910a34d02d256cc86008b14197992c460c72fe4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, a common tactic for phishing or SEO spam. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=graphene+properties+preparation+characterisation+and+devices+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://datab.vip/kixosapojb7nu9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444643/normal_602b33e771865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxemazone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739829/c3c153ad026c7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanadujogo/Xggevgi/jimmy_wiz_according_to_jim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikecortez.net/95988913583hlvm4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexitikobimefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776699/4341454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wukarogokemek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739107/799171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegonugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040733/munode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta.info/27097883269075e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumacy.site/rotating_skyscraper_in_dubaiz33av.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-ita.fun/dead_in_the_family_bookefzt2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_602908809f586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevijilutijeso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134850931/tezewudanubilop_dejomedebozix_xuwevawurun_doruwutuvinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storeplus.pro/cocoa_brown_miracle_mist_reviewsyqdvm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478655/normal_603e098ad76a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanakebap.org/lawogvkdvm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vifutetax/QYpjaYj/buzipirimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://79ab8074-8148-4faa-9219-f6cdfa35bc15.filesusr.com/ugd/99e004_ea36bc7210764a98acca0de216b961b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb8582fb-ab29-4f13-bfd4-623ca244ab52.filesusr.com/ugd/d61b30_acca7a0934bd48e69b6b0c1a8665d4cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b23183eb-b2e5-455e-bc25-91fac1efd10f.filesusr.com/ugd/cc14e4_d3811da108b94628b8c72b839c7ac0d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ea74ff18-003d-4094-8454-8d7e15e33abb.filesusr.com/ugd/50de67_3a44bd160c0843b29bf27d571a061f24.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13666 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3c588607fbb1b0efa86e93fc409cba5b68dd8ab2112a3d4ab5ba45eebd1e9c
font_01_sfnt_off000147b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B2 12372 bytes
SHA-256: d9d34b6ec72f575807efa71291e717f2b7266fd19e73545d12d16da315cc2d3f
font_02_sfnt_off000170fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170FC 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2b76eb92621148de57a48589384f2ed1ce1add53d2a8f9a0414c0ea737f4f8
font_03_sfnt_off000185f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185F5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3