Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 277676b509724a1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-28 10:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 829ad67b02d9650e68857042bff03baa SHA-1: a92283c60a3bd05534c83daf1b54fa761c1ec7ac SHA-256: 277676b509724a1da876c87d6a465319dab9e9321a2837edae135ad5904c02bd
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'ipad guide for seniors', which is likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=ipad+guide+for+seniors PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409403/normal_60146e6aeedee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487927/normal_5fd3183e87a00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busamanofar.22web.org/gatepabajenovogowesatowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lajenasuwo.iblogger.org/border_force_agent_authority_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365613/normal_5ff815e1b4670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kutawujotin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016956/81a0c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408478/normal_5fe7a6dec8cd3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pemutoguxo.66ghz.com/lumujekavubobafado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirulutot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700174/piwawowulawebosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474206/normal_604845bb44d94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d6d3a1c5-32ce-46e9-ae92-c5b8d84d65d9.filesusr.com/ugd/a3b54b_a1966f4c654046c0b8c73edc6780c273.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tafituza.rf.gd/tipidufukobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokujafeb.rf.gd/dowofowugusipamoduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://68fdcf0a-b1f0-4758-9edf-48d2be6d990b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac51ce_b9e907bf148f4f6f8ee905cb9bbf91d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://laxonuzuw.epizy.com/42435651023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://858e1da1-ad31-4e5b-aec0-89c59c6c71f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6240f8_806bb0a45539496f9e7b70fd092c6b06.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://297de083-771a-4730-a3b8-a2afe8c7d209.filesusr.com/ugd/47424f_a50e149399bc44d5b49f25a88c7d16f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zopijejezi.rf.gd/california_deposition_objections_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://63aa7d51-6c54-48cc-ac87-b710a0da19c3.filesusr.com/ugd/c8d394_0f2485e41e4c43c9acd702970c070d79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a3cd4400-5fdc-4e6a-bda8-88556a2d4d1f.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7489_bafc63882c7946e28e820b3113d49cb5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nakosaf.rf.gd/mikejipezogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdfb6f36-dde2-4af5-b3b7-55ff39976061.filesusr.com/ugd/c6ac46_e049a1a6e1504ddc9fd99fa4a480a780.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_off0000f12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12E 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 31514524a70b75828628960815b94e687330d3269f697034fb28585a008a36c7
font_01_sfnt_off000102aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AA 11804 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4ad8199566eaf03ac33004876e9f02cb822f824327d9c0119b1d5368679ae9