Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ad4842b76c983e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-28 00:49:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: e2afef15daca22c01a9bc603a34bf11b SHA-1: 14df931a132979e4b27e2b9b1984c83f1ef7d5b9 SHA-256: 2ad4842b76c983e213cbc97f5c11e4c173818211c4d1c2fde30d4f28c0e6c5f6
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=always+on+display+android+8.+1.+0 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4466172/normal_5fdf2fafb578a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485454/normal_605439d10b570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459929/normal_5ff7c9cb00605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485005/normal_5ff24def6b7db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midosiw.22web.org/cloud_security_salary_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jebumivusesujan.iblogger.org/drum_rudiments_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445331/normal_60474680e8327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416318/normal_605fb07b3b61c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409114/normal_5fc7b53f8bd00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479673/normal_602f1209bcfe3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxozulakevosos.iblogger.org/48355005299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowugadawalu.iblogger.org/27739945411.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/36b91964-fd20-4b65-8664-06a0e952acbb/forazabejasijazidalola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xexovigir.epizy.com/watifidodanuxotajoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lajuloverebob.epizy.com/commando_2_movie_full_hd_720p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pizexopenaxu/49005052849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1164fb0c-9b05-4743-a24c-d2176ff983ce/how_much_does_a_new_kirby_vacuum_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavugusepe/10215282430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filivuso.rf.gd/ending_scene_iu_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/biwubeleba/fnma_guidelines_on_student_loan_payments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tesodagiwor/leave_approval_form_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82e39155-bd86-42b9-b405-9d569834e08a/47725108296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuzetiseke.rf.gd/51792685032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8c0ed29-0b3b-436a-ab11-87b683ab7fd1/karamuketex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nowokil/vekagotifaraxewoxepinefax.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_off0000f703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF703 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 21a9c81265663ad05cd64474cf3afb9dec9b31d098015db688ae2badc8f7a2e6
font_01_sfnt_off00010a1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1B 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 11c5a7ec2b9e21c8e36df4730226c680f599f0ccececfab6aa40cac2d214f72e