Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31852c2ae42ecaf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-03-04 22:53:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 0715191e11a09990067be9ac14ea238c SHA-1: 8e7b60db24e1ea2b9bfbb8a903694c31bed5e179 SHA-256: 31852c2ae42ecaf6197d1e69844407b426034f6dfeff9f28d7ffacf3eea11c40
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a link farm tactic, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs points to a watering hole or phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://nipisod.ru/aws?utm_term=basic+excel+formulas+cheat+sheet PDF link annotation
    • http://rivepozepuxar.mywebcommunity.org/what_are_some_good_lab_safety_slogans_that_rhyme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivaserana.mywebcommunity.org/html_css_editor_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barajofa.mywebcommunity.org/40397536782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kagebavewijove.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740568/7723018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452599/normal_603a1773dc819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464302/normal_5fffe3157b0ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minufagotokuwak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134489045/xiwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotinebemoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134681432/kenoxepubufarepotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodefabufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473286/97fa39b900de14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipurovus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741110/3318827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sopisafexuj.sportsontheweb.net/streamline_steam_loco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500186/normal_5fec96f97ca02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murufirekitopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856476/xujurefetebidi_tebow_mosulakukake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorinifufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134357706/remaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453537/normal_600f49be78f8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496014/normal_5fc8446b7a01c.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/8dfa9660-06b8-491f-9ffc-d6c25f8a2a1f/82397039850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judiserod.onlinewebshop.net/is_noah_the_old_man_in_the_notebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abab8a39-a217-49f6-a1f8-97b34166ce0e/walmart_pharmacy_phone_number_menomonie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b52f64c-9979-44e8-986a-b3fbf44ada71/kifikepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c0f7daf-b862-47fd-999e-a4f81f0dd078/la_casa_de_los_espiritus_libro_sinopsis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavamikilav.myartsonline.com/56750335068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulutugorivexek.atwebpages.com/collins_easy_learning_spanish_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/274379d1-6c55-4750-9db9-09c9a25709ae/how_to_connect_directv_to_wifi.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_off0000eff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF4 5236 bytes
SHA-256: d8cb14ff55d7c9d9a4d0b000ad774c4737b4a393c3de443b83d5f9a1f46829d7
font_01_sfnt_off000101a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A2 11400 bytes
SHA-256: cf98c93e808125c4847cb81311bafb8d7232421480d8e63831b56284a23f2ef6