Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d192c340c77efc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-03-15 21:41:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 28268b566cd9f08885089f5ead97c991 SHA-1: c67824f1bdb80a1bc6c56a63322dbde9ce0da8b8 SHA-256: 1d192c340c77efc6db736508301244a5ee4c839c8fb4f1052cbfef4c8a3223bc
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as an SEO link farm and a high heuristic flagging it as an image lure linking to an SEO redirector. The primary URL identified is a redirector that masquerades as a guide for formatting an SD card, likely to entice users to click through to malicious content. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://xajibur.ru/123?utm_term=how+to+format+sd+card+write+protected PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458635/normal_60438aaeda14c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457330/normal_5ff55899c7725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392463/normal_60036dae22577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474211/normal_6007e257732c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454290/normal_603952f537c9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1dab3517-3db0-43ff-9fd6-b65b51f65b60.filesusr.com/ugd/565485_4c586a710a434698abb5a41e3d56bed8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b81da43e-9ba3-4547-afc6-3bd81513ffd9/53401415704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95b39913-835f-45ae-bfa1-2e656cb92b82/10611192604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b89b5974-7134-4fb5-a975-9db080f7e84c/75477128653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6e41b64-513e-4f73-9f41-746e5b5e037f/68868477105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b20aee1f-b1b7-4e4e-be5e-d884e4ece670.filesusr.com/ugd/10e3af_c1ec68b1a1e945e7867b61c925de2ada.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f11daa4-1ad8-4d9b-b5f0-2ebfe3304e06/sinners_in_the_hands_of_an_angry_god_by_jonathan_edwards_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/772b51ac-5675-4f08-b75f-69111753ac69/how_to_be_a_certified_behavior_analyst.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5da16f0f-7c3a-42ed-8162-482a140f390a/77270513983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/adb1e336-7154-42ec-8ccf-aba9f2d522fd/programmable_logic_controllers_5th_edition_petruzella_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3ae4d138-4ba3-4962-98fb-1b98b40a6a82.filesusr.com/ugd/38062a_01132136386b402ab4d33f6e742fe9e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8a674bb-c8fa-4b62-89c8-5197a52f045d/85490309355.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_off00010282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10282 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 00a3f72787b55da1aa45f5b8721d2c58552844a80dbb563f9826ff9298a6ec25
font_01_sfnt_off00011493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11493 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 343f2f299bc143f9c3653adf5379ea3539932e9fe3f709cbff07f95541e712da