Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f83788e4ae1b520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-04-13 21:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5b074cbd8ea84fc7fb2f2affc1c1ab83 SHA-1: 7ab9f630a2d700709445a2cd8550783cb573e0ac SHA-256: 1f83788e4ae1b520db4db64c097ff1e215d2924a4df3409d5e1ffbad65509659
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme to malicious sites. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to facilitate this redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=how+long+does+a+lifestraw+last PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/D8ifij3/27208998277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/veletafi/chhibhi/dope_wallpaper_hd_iphone_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vukixukafoga/Kjcjcje/sekewajitiseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/soziwariru/HMgh0gh/13093724923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuwewiwudesi/diahglw/67575132937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc07058a-4660-4aa9-a6d3-f6133a9488be/rebelion_de_la_granja_descripcion_de_personajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wanalovum/louis_vuitton_laureate_platform_boots.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://814bd5e1-0b6f-40f8-b2e9-6ab0015c5eef.filesusr.com/ugd/cc77ff_ac7586ae129749f4b3dd05df68bfac8d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2065f6f1-29fb-48ac-a230-4f4ab2d4b746.filesusr.com/ugd/b62953_9e2871476e904bd285bdf89e3d9e9350.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba30dffa-51fe-4caa-9472-6f142403a9bb.filesusr.com/ugd/c2007e_0e284d9ad13e4512918a9b1bda925225.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d89d6b52-6e76-4e18-bccb-bd7428cfddad.filesusr.com/ugd/02beb7_b43da401b11a46f5a770240d64dd4f8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b746c13c-47ba-48f1-9b6f-e8a2d3e4717d/norawotekapemizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/12472f68-a814-4399-9eec-e7fb43ee1ee3/what_kind_of_cable_does_ps3_controller_use.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e6a48395-9ebc-465e-8505-c4b20d7b8e72.filesusr.com/ugd/81e12b_29f920af9e634d2b8e59004ce58fd14f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ae98f41-e952-448d-9bf0-fc8d0c93b53d/kindle_fire_hd_7_2012_google_play.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jarirotexab/adblock_for_android_no_root.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bagisi/kowajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31bbe7e8-ccd5-496d-9449-29c971f41f7a/sarabusinagewesobifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zagapaxa/insurance_coverage_letter_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bca113ae-5fb8-4eb7-a3a1-0f174143a415/advanced_sql_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/624a1964-9537-4a8e-8452-85021a183e0a/fender_mustang_gt40_amp_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/134b325e-8295-453a-bd23-c19a7c278726/how_to_follow_paleo_diet_for_weight_loss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mupukesunobaga/garmin_2595lmt_review.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF585 4916 bytes
SHA-256: 278acc0e04ba8ea097b077935fbb0d310b282b700efdbb72aaf472e4866283a0
font_01_sfnt_off00010659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10659 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 86dc144d911ecdf24b72f60189117f53e42b9aa51e54d4952e56e3a0ba8d0ad3
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361