Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c030c57c0add4a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-05-21 05:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 273843d34ee0baf7d13857c510928063 SHA-1: ba153dc2db3591d15d9386c002b65db06ef6c1dc SHA-256: 1c030c57c0add4a2893e3fc966a23d2880049acb1334a450614576aebebb2b60
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links, with one prominent URL pointing to 'https://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=area+and+perimeter+of+shapes+worksheets+pdf'. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to entice users to click these links. The document's structure and the high number of external links indicate a potential attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=area+and+perimeter+of+shapes+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404133/normal_603c2c829321a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480408/normal_60242595988cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezizeme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775554/vezozumozugovubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://judenebubiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134656374/zatakepekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pafajawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682051/medenobarapite-panilizesab-jeboxekizevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fububekamuko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986391/jivuvemisirijeg_bobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokikemapusa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398543/1509189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizonilorixu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134772478/a1b2c0b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zatemolepilud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136085897/lizorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369331/normal_606df5b939ae6.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/2af002c5-1ed8-4d6b-a5f8-1aac61d6ac00/how_to_make_distilled_water_at_home_for_cpap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2965584-da6d-4be7-8224-9fbc19560df8/zoluzimovunusegibega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81564f7b-02f9-458b-977d-6f1aa8b6fa8a/us_navy_recruiting_command_millington_tn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef957303-6ea6-4aab-9b1c-56ba5b37deb5/cant_name_a_single_thing_in_this_photo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de200e27-cb6e-4a73-9e85-b6eb37d51c3f/xaferalejupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d590fec3-2e5c-49bf-a6eb-af19553db13d/what_is_unity_in_a_painting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52fc957e-471c-4624-b126-743592294f07/decision_tree_maker_wordpress.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_off0000e48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48C 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 351f325fb0d7db84c540ba03856136755fd37f164ec661f3c8db82017fae49e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D1 11492 bytes
SHA-256: c3383a73cceb8e8d1ea66574afaaf7e990106b9a1c4584fdd82bb63bab762c3d