Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea8ffb8d86973c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-02 13:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 04430078fb12d3527251145533650899 SHA-1: ed745d004ee560df5b87515e5df8b9517cd6db7b SHA-256: 1ea8ffb8d86973c41b0e2d22799aa608732dc65d710a53c91a46964123818b19
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, one of which, 'https://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+espresso+testing+in+android', is a suspicious domain associated with link farming and potentially malicious redirects. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of multiple links and the malware detection strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+espresso+testing+in+android PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403685/normal_5fc9be6bd6f3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapobatajixafaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310280/zimumarom_xajisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxefarowo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137505528/4017929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366008/normal_60331c40b1634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4444370/normal_6003a74aad620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467912/normal_600fa6ce8d60f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sozejaras.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695734/1abab9c7746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawajutexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108687/pafotizuba.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/0e441f8c-8246-41cb-b082-eeb85ea1f22f/how_to_install_swann_wifi_security_camera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojipoxar.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144448917/97416125091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lopofemusun.pbworks.com/f/ni_apocalpticos_ni_integrados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxaxufudej.pbworks.com/f/58460431119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poforezufovu.pbworks.com/f/fobafukifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulisapil.pbworks.com/f/83297691246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pezeliv.pbworks.com/f/wagunibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fodorafirig.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144475194/17522469335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbda40a2-fcd4-418a-a86b-5b716c7e4767/gavakowureneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0ebb6dd5-df91-4aa7-9018-1d0d67cc5358/basigalamefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labidan.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144472014/how_to_make_freshii_mediterranean_bowl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://junerew.pbworks.com/f/tiktok_apk_download_uptodown_jio_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/125c15d6-d194-4903-8331-00344d3b511a/what_comes_in_spectrum_self_install_kit.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_off00010506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10506 5200 bytes
SHA-256: f627fbd2881bb3d41f14f94138f6c9bc1fcb9d74a5e68f3c85724735317c9c60
font_01_sfnt_off000116bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116BC 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 244993d1908417641b9336c34d83337ece6f23e3eb19b7497be6d665160815cf