Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c24155072b356e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-24 13:15:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 02fc33bed94f4311c700dd49e970cf1c SHA-1: a1cf395c15946277ce6da5f3d359c873786c89f5 SHA-256: 1c24155072b356e2a8cd3c2e42f573e716f9f7e86db27260644921c09255572e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the extracted URLs, https://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=matoaca+high+school+basketball, is likely part of this scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=matoaca+high+school+basketball PDF link annotation
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    • http://bidizujimon.getenjoyment.net/scag_mowers_for_sale_in_alabama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zunuruxeguxifi.mygamesonline.org/logitech_k120_wired_usb_keyboard_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidver.com/72819010162nk8zz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meverelalopabij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108836/golawu_fajuziwolizawap_kivijixi_zemiziketexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabermanufacture.ru/bijejez1o8ll.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lafasajuju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017903/rapuveweg_begeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bumarotijij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688095/3428a11c68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-shop.website/govukivnui0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vapomawuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398268/zavixuleketiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sozaxesugoj.mywebcommunity.org/mixed_up_files_of_mrs_basil_e_frankweiler_chapter_summaries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interbankdigital.com/53520081941qx12i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jalesebexiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739560/2056553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tozaduliwubega/scribblenauts_unlimited_ps4_trophy_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce322291-b3da-4cc2-ae0f-523e25daec44.filesusr.com/ugd/4530da_25d7b443b50b44cb975add7cfa721ea6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://769966b8-4adc-437e-bba8-f198cf6e171b.filesusr.com/ugd/41a0b6_536b8eccd7e448c0971cc27c2adc64c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b4095e1f-5e43-4c35-8b28-ff0c3185c247.filesusr.com/ugd/9cc3de_b8c461087a2f4c649995362ab291a5db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wukevirenesu/98425280331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa53e508-d88d-41cb-897c-7a5b6f1bfcc3.filesusr.com/ugd/361045_7b358eee44c242a4bc86fc1306346893.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://livirava.atwebpages.com/behringer_xenyx_x1204usb_driver_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejikefowu/finite_automata_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurebosuloxu.myartsonline.com/canon_digital_photo_professional_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://366cd995-4ddf-4220-a197-7cea849caf0e.filesusr.com/ugd/947062_782a06cd4ddb4c468757df4c61b21964.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zusevamasor/how_to_install_a_dryer_outlet_3_prong.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_off0000f015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF015 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 885535f59c197310d55b00b34a497e02f2cb0b7464c7c5fd408082bcb1e63a3d
font_01_sfnt_off000101be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BE 10960 bytes
SHA-256: c8678928a0eb787bde902405738898951e8c33ac808672975c285ec73e741339