Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26354478f0011827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2020-12-20 04:21:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: bfd8d1718e1a2257c4b926d5a0b58874 SHA-1: 1a3999b166d1ab8f635800ab70032eae5ab54d16 SHA-256: 26354478f0011827d76b7bdfe9825bc434a8c8718055803b971358e149dfbf72
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://traffset.ru/wb?keyword=copper%20price%20live%20chart%20uk PDF link annotation
    • https://koxoganonigowup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408343/goladal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varozifan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740200/2434568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litaduzava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499200/66fd09b5fbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guvoladedesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453897/5788602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibeliki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738572/3cfd05c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kupanonul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134682697/40a5e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukejuzim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457080/kiwopezuwujixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebezudaxefen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347708/232029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xipejefokodidub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134612454/bokupu.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/bodajaku/90037573843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d95fee7-fa90-4f68-9eb3-efefdea3aedb/lobuzogirafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40ed5678-906b-47a2-862d-3fc72446969b/zone_golf_cart_specs.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00010f8e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10F8E 28964 bytes
SHA-256: 69e33c33860fc9a693abe24cb7068d0ae782ad4ae3aa00668c7365700cc40697
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8ED 4872 bytes
SHA-256: 1a7c1665471379326299420955eb7b34e0b98957135cc55e0808566b4b49be6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97B 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 833733215ca309e78fb3e55350a6852910430b18203fe40b243ee898ad52eb13