Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f2c948e725c4153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-03-23 16:26:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 53b721fa9b8a25b677adabd875375d1d SHA-1: c923c49064e470c92cf04f33cddbac0a09e36274 SHA-256: 1f2c948e725c415377d749e9e74fa426a9a224a478ae73d44e7e47363b66fbac
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links designed to appear as a link farm for various PDF documents, including "asset allocation theory pdf" and "acrobat reader professional free download". This technique is commonly used in phishing and SEO spam campaigns to drive traffic to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware or visiting phishing pages.

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.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=asset+allocation+theory+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rozesivotix/gjiijlC/lenovo_premier_support_phone_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jesarijufe/heEeLgH/black_square_painting_sold_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobativ.mywebcommunity.org/46111781800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nogorodizet/XgeLiit/playstation_5_pre_order_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suzamakulamuj.mypressonline.com/zadelebekuduvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miwavilusaji/iigjnG9/learn_thai_language_listen_speak_read_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/laruxibut/jdofkhc/tufopozoviwexibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://biwosagamivi.myartsonline.com/acrobat_reader_6_professional_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sobaketemu/28725036797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazovalekotevo.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_calculate_density_given_pressure_and_temperature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://17851959-1482-4b49-8222-7b7b0c628459.filesusr.com/ugd/3cb679_389e51bb56dd42ac8684161761afc130.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wujodibu/motabafukon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ffa788b-df2f-461f-b9c5-573bec542745.filesusr.com/ugd/374ce0_3f0ff26eb4924bc885d6dd2b090461ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/963db896-5e14-458f-a7cd-f3e35364d546/98768563225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e57b3aa5-1866-40b7-a1c0-809b4dbe05cc/zidopakipuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6d428a25-da86-44fa-8f13-5b0f09742281.filesusr.com/ugd/3649d2_77ceff3d5331430ea316bfbf4c167276.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kozewuposoridil/47588755490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec451167-49e0-489e-a150-d7dc0ecf9264.filesusr.com/ugd/fe0276_e137bc73b7c54c97a63a0a7bf8985640.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://235be7ff-9b22-41de-91df-7a9e5ced5199.filesusr.com/ugd/4fa465_c720d83daee542178cc3ebb669cad46a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lumixi/tixesewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wuvepilamamuse/4039462759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jesidofefe/85850111126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f303d7e3-2e58-478f-a2e2-8752b24a8149/how_to_add_multiple_location_on_google_map_in_my_website.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fab0a4e-cc7d-4846-829d-0345fe702a0a/61858881518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/taguxif/fevoke.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_off000112b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B2 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 9622b0728c6c4b3ddeee966ea106fce557e06283527344575ad095eb343aa663
font_01_sfnt_off000124dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124DC 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 3eafbf9282a63b8dc4f309e122cc06ef008b21c20f1f9ca83dd80b58faece9bd