Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20779dcabcaa1e3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-04-01 00:49:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 08e2211cc8a746a2652543cae2feb113 SHA-1: b5c565a73e0c603abc1749a41c48f8ff1799ee57 SHA-256: 20779dcabcaa1e3d57a137c0e1dc0f05ffb31e456f8e65ee57cc7db481298873
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=steam+boiler+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://boxatikavizag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134680825/kipisidejuwa_numawexekej_tiduzototubo_gizaripelavajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litukepulaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863372/zenejelopafarozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fosevikotik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637163/pixikafugowuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vanewano/jevB8KA/92799198616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/soxuwutitaw/hhqYzcO/goal_goal_and_over_2._5_prediction_tips.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/situdejoj/KIDB7hj/idle_factory_tycoon_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wutejaguruloz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871665/pifarurikidini-faninatomez-dexopagawenebu-zinudajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://towufato.mywebcommunity.org/dda_circle_drawing_algorithm_in_computer_graphics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razivizufizide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525322/f6f60ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xevamoz.mygamesonline.org/hyperbole_and_a_half_book_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vexezujuzas.scienceontheweb.net/48850712148.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/6e9e90f6-fd40-4d10-95cf-642c44ab6c0c/13737475324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb017128-e2df-404a-b964-007787e306f8/18769247338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c5d6ec8-d59d-49a0-92b5-1bccf2f47ed7/how_bad_can_i_be_spanish_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50fedd1a-d888-4c19-af1c-535e0974a8e1/casio_g_shock_3750_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9f3ff56-19f9-4ebc-ab10-902ccddde21e/17522462135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c74b98d4-0c0a-42b0-b343-ffc2e915fefa/rock_cycle_worksheet_4th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5e4cbd7-4b47-4087-acd2-4b4f1df17ab8/wupozuxopotoxekikiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78c8e02d-deae-4194-ac33-5f0746fe4698/sri_rudram_namakam_and_chamakam_lyrics_in_kannada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supuwevul.atwebpages.com/zikubinuvurorarexo.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_off0000f15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15E 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 92dcdaa24f922d6c9a3aee37d221554b0d37139483c8ef07f3a3d0cd016c0435
font_01_sfnt_off000103b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B4 10984 bytes
SHA-256: bc2361470776910e98e02376db38140a4dd7780ad0dd0153513c27a654cdbe4a