Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 245f67908982acfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-04-08 17:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: dc7697dce277cd6e4021f6d47db2c93d SHA-1: 80cb1e2637a0375b0ab70b6fd174f247d9732b1c SHA-256: 245f67908982acfbe32f736df5578fd9ca6e979375f2da1bd9f74aeed6dd43a3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and a heuristic identified it as a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to COVID-19 testing, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=can+you+require+employees+to+test+for+covid PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuxiropuwomo/xjjiih3/xisadivesinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bozadukopufu/jbij8hh/mexican_train_dominoes_gold_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latopilufazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017217/6039983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekisonoloze.sportsontheweb.net/kadixalasavotuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipogidara/8jfDii6/fios_tv_app_remote_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lafowujokunoro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738997/pokexu-fasevukexu-bujopibolama-tixiwoxepeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414672/normal_60064fc7e85ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xopuwomu/chgjfjb/word_cross_out.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4376359/normal_5ffa37b6db169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490724/normal_5ff8f21e9363d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nipizakevenuvis.scienceontheweb.net/87555499471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365582/normal_605237fa43178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luwesefizi/b6qQfby/crossroads_church_odessa_tx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417807/normal_6052facce5131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peminikagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856713/23385a12fa.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/f5855ed0-bdd3-43ca-a054-43cbfa1b95ef/97366236207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2e5cbe44-7de3-4e3f-b94c-8a8567814465.filesusr.com/ugd/f96b02_7ae522948e7c4d0c9a4d99c01d665a01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cee31756-aaec-4628-9a26-75341d17c916/fine_woodworking_magazine_gift_subscription.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0053c422-8b16-4e8f-827b-d058379bfb89/the_vampire_diaries_the_struggle_2.sezon_1.blm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dufojamimusim.atwebpages.com/74109606335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://79ab8074-8148-4faa-9219-f6cdfa35bc15.filesusr.com/ugd/99e004_7f8c6feffbc942c6a1820878513f7277.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jifimurosesapu.atwebpages.com/fobazuniramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5b7ad9d-4d15-4ad3-8e4b-d5d7b008fe95/wulozoxelawobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1a9cd40a-f0d6-44d4-a143-19288280ca2b.filesusr.com/ugd/7a13df_232d0372f3cc4d2898262199e2d2e423.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebd73b9a-b255-48a5-b781-2bd84b483b4c.filesusr.com/ugd/956c05_35e5fe1035f84e418221cd94b8d6dfe0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_c10e6826e4794ae1b2bc20afe0a6c507.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0001091f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091F 5492 bytes
SHA-256: f619dd8b675f62136871a5de261eee143aef6d047e43e9b2b9d3c5f4d8979086
font_01_sfnt_off00011bc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC3 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 47d924754ac0cc64614f78381e5e088194f1fe9ec6ee7b474b197f024feb015a