Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30bc579a7aed8e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-03-21 23:57:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 05df070ae362e5adebaf31add1c0297e SHA-1: 357759ae7161c8ae75f0c1f6f35948b486b627ea SHA-256: 30bc579a7aed8e891361f9756f62df87e510d46cdc54072e0904780cbf1dbf63
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=calculating+electrostatic+force+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/salenasova/jciiZje/badlands_national_park_facts_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xibetevoxaj/drxm5ja/mikiwigufogobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/hjR6Xge/fubatozawaxilutulikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paxebijevoz.iblogger.org/how_much_money_does_richard_lustig_have.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jalatuxu.iblogger.org/physiology_books_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorezina/Gihie24/vamelaloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bajafigotuvi/difjhih/escape_game_50_rooms_1_level_50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fivajopafovile.rf.gd/jizemekinerevimidoweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e08b8fe-e088-40b3-baaf-5b319fef18b4/sogitixonaparokekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://694dae7a-2033-4a59-8b06-91ff4eec0774.filesusr.com/ugd/e1d58f_3ee4203d71204560b2ae4ed26d257e60.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarenunev.rf.gd/muxipilibemakosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e08ee3ff-e54d-4550-abbf-24d704801289/xoregibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab25a8b3-4d80-4d4b-93a1-c1347014fa7c.filesusr.com/ugd/8d0191_fae66a38457d44b4b0c1f126b3ebb8b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5405d108-7f1e-482b-a10c-e06f62b7505d.filesusr.com/ugd/d941b1_6bcb07f74d4b435390eb76062b039d08.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b03e51a8-7171-48c0-94d6-e4c032e6f37f.filesusr.com/ugd/9421c8_21cb88e70c3c422c81c160575b0ce612.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://02796127-04ec-4c85-b270-c6f7310ebb18.filesusr.com/ugd/ce0e6d_2539246553224d9fa5eaf5f412f2f6b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ditaxaj.rf.gd/xexaxifakodejopirida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22cb7568-90c9-4b69-9460-ed71b6a53b53/where_to_buy_dressmaker_sewing_machine_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e06e8306-d71e-4c92-aa1b-e8c52eeb44cb.filesusr.com/ugd/bc4951_8627bb13301d42b4a0448d3cb46a7db4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f3ea461b-95fd-44cf-949c-5afda193840f.filesusr.com/ugd/a48928_352a6978493b4b82bb17d0f8f40bf0f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a7da3e60-63c8-46c1-a846-eab7df628ed2.filesusr.com/ugd/bba345_82841f66915d4ae7963f28e4c24e7818.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://070488ba-e3d9-4c74-834b-445551f5513c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb83f1_b0a2c1b433e249c4b5a851191797097b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fumutomuwe.epizy.com/32700832640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc81b6d6-9594-4630-910f-0740ab319e74/handwriting_without_tears_letter_formation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazufunove.rf.gd/kazajikeletib.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CE 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 5439ae8db851fd2dc3ad61e53c782c8c3311990b7d25a39b86c5ee91a9f5d421
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98D 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 34d0335a7fe862c5fee85edf9b0fce74acf2ee7cc215e8cb1455a9aff5cd3657
font_02_sfnt_off0001213a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1213A 16340 bytes
SHA-256: b624f81427295ccb82298d92450a3874cf6f95f6f57c2666a83a2bb35bfebebf