Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32e427a3bb1b751c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-02-16 01:01:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 1a474046920320ab09a7da0563bb15fd SHA-1: d6e030d0a40223cd66a071a28af833c652695765 SHA-256: 32e427a3bb1b751ca327b352c56934679b112bb4ca84dbc1afa50cb601e179a2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=is+domino%2527s+pizza+halal PDF link annotation
    • http://lakulikelanu.iblogger.org/beded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386333/normal_5fe993c787304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fexejikexew/aic1Ajd/nudogolobaminepiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kewawukufiju/7ihphgP/35645488763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webuwexuzebonal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775053/basegujarepatisavuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mitejapeki/9hiyAni/35317030260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smirno.life/vafozbl36x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitamegupep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302953/db46bd6cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixelila/gePjcZz/hd_wallpapers_pinterest_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494432/normal_5ffed3dfa46db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefogazasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880183/6471141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wivoruremuwun.rf.gd/runemuninovagawoxumifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bidivo/kiplinger_retirement_report_subscription_discount.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetetekeputesi.epizy.com/sheepish_game_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/netinuwa/the_most_dangerous_game_question_support_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volapubexu.epizy.com/zenamerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mokamoba/new_bollywood_movie_2017.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_off000157a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157A9 5124 bytes
SHA-256: ebe171428fed1c7a923c2f71bc112ee712d7c77300ead9ac803bc2906fc7cd77
font_01_sfnt_off000168fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168FA 11616 bytes
SHA-256: 470db5128ab3a5994af39484a21b74b15d988ad888890edd7e5005c8b95ae8bb