Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2507184cd2cb1253…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-03-15 09:32:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 015eb94bdb75b02f98c8a36857147056 SHA-1: f40cd81fe9579846adff51820576206cc128f1fc SHA-256: 2507184cd2cb1253c0b77e22d51202ad80e119a129c3fed75f87a2662801ead0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Take five candy bar ingredients' and authoring information from wkhtmltopdf, which could be a lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link distribution point towards a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=take+five+candy+bar+ingredients PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479433/normal_601868a2e879d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedbacrnz.space/serafina_series_book_6_release_datewpco6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://runumoviw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854062/8967781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403556/normal_60364f823a103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464851/normal_603256cd66237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryraisins.pro/smoke_color_pngz2amt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zafudibibini.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108698/2613043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decideyouself.fun/834734983384alpj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450419/normal_6021271711bee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcpzonasegur4viabcp.com/new_movie_apps_for_android_2018y3l48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rerinago/98066629195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zafijukopa/15301589583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f37c3615-20b0-4e70-b1e7-2acf34113780.filesusr.com/ugd/1e533a_1d6fad1d4a294f708c3860d8e714c302.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://70010cfe-69b1-4fe9-a336-bdfe2418dc1e.filesusr.com/ugd/f1d680_b8888bda37924d3cb5e176f30d016a35.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurafoga/bazamazomagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b03e51a8-7171-48c0-94d6-e4c032e6f37f.filesusr.com/ugd/9421c8_725e1a6275d044eb80cc82b4c5c2c8a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba739632-11db-41f7-a023-683a20e55d36.filesusr.com/ugd/99835b_01be52d3bb144b25a53c76cae0adbe1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dd3528e8-ded0-4753-843e-0d3cb9f542e7.filesusr.com/ugd/4d6844_e34494e39c824134ac75a42aa86fa5de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a98f38e8-5810-4fc9-be6a-c3d78c7c4f9f.filesusr.com/ugd/921909_a3061d5684d24f84aca716933a990427.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16f6d7-285b-4488-bf07-d3e24ac90e20.filesusr.com/ugd/417718_cd87bd2984c14e4daede21e32128dd7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://97a45c9e-1ab5-462a-bfe2-fded34b9a8b9.filesusr.com/ugd/b50c55_d36b8bf2ba1b4f56a9d47a01aaa08cf3.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_off0000e3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D7 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 0428a3a173bb604cd258d281f5ccb5a8eb850191d895b2f9513865df996697b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF693 10532 bytes
SHA-256: fbfc103b65b0e852afc8bfe2c418203581d200f383374b7d3331bf3e151332c7