Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8a37778b54ea55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-03-05 11:26:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1e4831a8fab089996e9f61b91ac27dfb SHA-1: a8b2dac7b36a5c0303de63c8875bfdcda354cddd SHA-256: 1c8a37778b54ea550b06c7da0247daeb1382a9cba67281416526be1e1746c1ef
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+hue+saturation+and+luminance+in+lightroom', likely serve as lures to phishing or scam websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+hue+saturation+and+luminance+in+lightroom PDF link annotation
    • http://babixuxuw.22web.org/estrategia_de_aprendizaje_basado_en_proyectos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovajofi.iblogger.org/dararixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402720/normal_601f5bfd636c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xefemile.22web.org/change_activity_android_studio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumonivaxozutod.mypressonline.com/jonsered_525_chainsaw_parts_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lowunidedalovel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/9473926ac5b134b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixowumunek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135330445/nutemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420911/normal_6041c8360ecba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488574/normal_5ffa35c7f3240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupofjacob.com/glitch_cam_mod_apktocbr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instgrmmverifiedbadge.com/the_crown_season_5_episode_7_castf3bqy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makamar.xyz/besidabukunobolqv8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8gusevshop.website/how_to_connect_samsung_hw-h550_soundbar3hfxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404976/normal_5fca4baa4bb95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dugigezulafi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134898894/c0ecc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobunav.sportsontheweb.net/38409007830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c30b87d5-e38e-4f4c-8f61-e356d9eaafe8.filesusr.com/ugd/347120_a05e03408376424ebccbf61f58b88f9c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pivutabomenatam.rf.gd/2006_club_car_carryall_272_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a4067306-84c0-45ce-9c36-3cbb795fcb37.filesusr.com/ugd/d5b970_9df81744de744c5d8a487158eaf36543.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1b3fde16-7575-45ba-b40e-8916c64185ca.filesusr.com/ugd/8874e8_69cc4d1ee2944d9288d66c1cbaae6974.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2791e1c6-719d-47aa-bdc5-1556df251b63.filesusr.com/ugd/7757c5_7fe3be4ca595448db6c2d894a42eeaab.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FD 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 90c8a4adf79bf97bb8ce66a28b080d9b52255b2a041ac52bd6534f61c0c5b919
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1D 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 3b36a00598c0179016d15c2fd582ab3a662c8fc539b02842c1675a8640cd594d