Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31831fd38350e1af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-03-21 10:33:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: b6a5527aaab260c94bb4a43a70117a23 SHA-1: 9f1aeebb8bd500453dc9323039b693c207087480 SHA-256: 31831fd38350e1afdb73fda519124967c2c3ee9f4078e4e7bc16efbb8a4698af
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or facilitating SEO manipulation.

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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=words+starting+ae PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuwetebep/frYfMxo/kadabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babipuwoze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865032/8018b22080b97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495525/normal_604dee6e77af9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475209/normal_5ff756e12b7b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/masamiwe/ahhofje/jolted_definition_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368223/normal_5fc73f7e46f51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/benibavagoge/dghgLt7/78002958502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wobodepubusa.22web.org/theme_of_post_colonialism_in_heart_of_darkness.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevipezuke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134652321/vamosiluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toviranevu/bpuhd9g/11582287784.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/bbed07d9-11c0-44b7-a460-a359088728b5/zerexazuwuwuvaledesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajakoxefulume.epizy.com/45770928921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1628ddcf-e301-416d-9649-d9339b85441b.filesusr.com/ugd/0b1079_2dab44bdb908473c8bff0cdb054f9478.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://94e55d9a-ad7c-4b6b-a54a-a00202ad3087.filesusr.com/ugd/208fd7_a40e8e32d0bc48489242560de23ec752.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://171e2b11-24ea-4535-acac-f971ec821c4b.filesusr.com/ugd/a07927_fb922b78d35845f8aa1feaecee747c33.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://geralumumavol.rf.gd/rigetoduwewoxigowefoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felepukagerek.epizy.com/online_spanish_classes_for_nurses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/125238f2-c884-4dd0-aad8-f63f77b48866/bowelededose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d7ed8d4-1829-48da-b67b-603086451f4c/how_much_does_it_cost_to_fully_service_a_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defisufinuriwo.rf.gd/algebra_2_volume_1_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://07e0a16e-b77d-475b-b724-88bbaedb347c.filesusr.com/ugd/8e9e2f_0c2df9c6bed84651b8055e2f5361d236.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
    • 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_off00010222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10222 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 8d171806d51bf9e25218a27d7fbffa6a109b04bce862366feec25afbbbca87f0
font_01_sfnt_off00011325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11325 11260 bytes
SHA-256: a65cf5239b7da4d9bb3260623c647d71a77910835bf3fad638df711bfc521327
font_02_sfnt_off000139f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F3 16376 bytes
SHA-256: f267a97a42ed964490c0c36cf8d24d30f5cfc386ee24850e75bb3a4991f11828