Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2367d0aa7ebb9ef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-05-31 15:43:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: adc9d97c48c8315bd3c1944f16d6a60e SHA-1: 0fba677562ca3d4465df3900c2dfd961440d9267 SHA-256: 2367d0aa7ebb9ef53bfd14442eb51eab64fef5ffd09ca966972f15be63156a32
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The primary URL identified is https://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+get+good+at+farming+simulator+19, which is likely the initial lure or C2 beacon.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+get+good+at+farming+simulator+19 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365575/normal_601eb52392633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365639/normal_5fdb882fd26c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezudoki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320633/6afecc1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366360/normal_5ff64d54da9df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387424/normal_5fd7b97d763fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482413/normal_5fca95774fd63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nudadisaxoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018155/4238046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopiwuzurori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398237/gukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385417/normal_5ff3b667d3b56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pumelagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814433/d693a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xufetujada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745175/9704224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383681/normal_5fd0f4bcd23fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377662/normal_606b9324bf744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414339/normal_602cea5198490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451945/normal_5fddf6bf0fdc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369162/normal_602f50db405fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393790/normal_60557985e40bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipofazusaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/8e0b53cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popoxalisasuper.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775362/4085254.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/ffcc8dea-9d2a-403c-9d8e-67368896b61f/xutowitevoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d436650e-2f3e-4729-96d6-6199baf731f1/57592000334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/115c5a9e-83ae-45e6-9202-5207081890a3/how_many_dinosaurs_are_there_left_in_the_world.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_off0000f78c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78C 5488 bytes
SHA-256: e0d181087943b7b012f08598f8e8b03309e39bc68647439cc25c6504ed36a7ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3E 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 89eebd7fc339907e1ed3bf3d32118056b90b0495c7d7c457791bd0b290215db6