Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36029950c9258979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-04-14 22:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f8c65210afe7b28ebfc0b0467c41f61c SHA-1: 4bea1ec084199d89ec61574b70b70bcef1a973a6 SHA-256: 36029950c92589797faec5d36c4023f56125625679e007d0d191a8fffdfb33c5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=marantz+portable+cassette+recorder+pmd+430 PDF link annotation
    • https://xepinepuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969238/1935672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxewoxevum/igGicOS/stachys_byzantina_helen_von_stein.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wopiwozaso/hdifsHl/pijunufegivunabafoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405650/normal_60142dd41c13c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigokujote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134649591/35903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezijetide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134864221/maduvekogewoxa_vojobasiwoja_vazup_gepedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muragifenujokuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164382/5340007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tetiwaxope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776033/zigivizalewas_gumovudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tebefaravuz/eQ4ijif/xirapukoxemudosefizuniwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485569/normal_60637921cd89c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voirlo.xyz/jijajetapefopuzifos4kk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewita.fun/kaxezuge1hebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7031c68c-cf47-488c-b9bd-b344696616f5.filesusr.com/ugd/51e9e9_9a428249d6604e96bb8fb3ba3e79ce2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://769966b8-4adc-437e-bba8-f198cf6e171b.filesusr.com/ugd/41a0b6_aafa6fce7e3a409da8113cb401a8f753.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d4c8fa1-f03c-42aa-aac0-39b46e7a95dc/zorozafasalurakujuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/12ee25a4-2d74-495b-a0ba-7291b4f68ff1/57157421830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f1888b6-cdab-4603-9914-1cf81a8b29aa.filesusr.com/ugd/6846fe_e075bae0d449439086a2c7e93bcb6518.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f014f6e-8baf-4873-bdf2-2bcbe0142283/13398147118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://79c9c32e-6572-42fd-9c0e-61d057d48a34.filesusr.com/ugd/33a1c8_7f543c0770374d9b9788fbff31a1a9af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://43fe4710-460a-4ad3-90dc-2dd795c51528.filesusr.com/ugd/a32c20_fe5f68bc911f4ad1abe7b9e0f9e052e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/609e9ad6-efe0-428d-9f02-4b0c60ad46e2/setanovawabajuvigo.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_off0000f275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF275 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 4174ca1149097f2936084744c538e5e13edeb600b751e39176e64b7987124c3f
font_01_sfnt_off00010636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10636 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 8e0ec22b665fefba3abaa3055fa05313d4c106de5ecc0b7539c56ac605a8bc6a