Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f10fb4da7bacc57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-03-01 08:34:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 916e9120919cc0f570453b700bf88ff7 SHA-1: 60e2d0f0f384c1574e58433b4e694c3d743feabc SHA-256: 1f10fb4da7bacc57d800e0bff5ed91dbebd426cdc14605aa0089a15e5446f773
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically identifying a mass of external links. The embedded URL 'https://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=vintage+style+oxford+heels' suggests a lure related to fashion or e-commerce, potentially for phishing.

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://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=vintage+style+oxford+heels PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481852/normal_5fcd986b52011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojoranazo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403481/wubenijefomaxo-gadalipesupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudagetani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134381332/5298006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387581/normal_60292bf43a04d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gatepeduvemixif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134669895/fejesodogokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujenorap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135322769/zibedo_zasunumazelezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lewaxirilukuxod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813115/befukesemoj_sodezirutinami_xazirisuji_gowanole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukexomupuko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164185/webijebes_risiluponoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxojifupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438233/firusobakewijum_roriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://towajemikof.iblogger.org/pediatric_hypertension_guidelines_nice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zijepujalikok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/dfaa79b83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419851/normal_5fc7f4649eb0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390052/normal_602f9c7647b40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383806/normal_5ff545839ffe7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4499341/normal_5fca34e756d12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453890/normal_5fcfb034bc5f7.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/voropa/legox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavebufevodutob/41680973739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fajonubinomeder/gelatin_salad_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinadi/polonaise_in_a_flat_major_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubixuguse.epizy.com/ccc_water_connection_application_form.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_off0000dfb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB5 5304 bytes
SHA-256: b860db8f601813945cd7395b6499cc488796dfa08cef32fa6deb59114ce5bc5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CB 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 1a9d9c4875067e7672943f17bb28e1f8595c7b227fff2c8aabbd01a10ab48ff3