Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3636b9124371e460…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-05-11 01:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 41c0d20dde699278a1ecbfb1d95781a4 SHA-1: 20c179239fec7a10e9ff11bd9c20f6b5d175ec7c SHA-256: 3636b9124371e460ea5caae12d690518d5aff73d1db54a26a1f934b9c202a63c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+connect+vizio+sound+bar+to+apple+tv', are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+connect+vizio+sound+bar+to+apple+tv PDF link annotation
    • https://fitelibisubun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133987071/7969628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnclassis.org/sony_rx100_iv_user_manual_downloadpqpa0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramsupportinfo.com/logitech_x-530_5.1_windows_7_drivers_download_freepdtsr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zukosejudejuze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681260/2192685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinusiwujegabu.medianewsonline.com/dragon_age_asunder_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giretalude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677333/98930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumobumekola.getenjoyment.net/gagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoraama.space/6780398712mhvqp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coloradocustomelectric.com/916094519y5tlp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://9e1bd277-069e-4713-bdcc-1ab96cf790c3.filesusr.com/ugd/5fd2af_2d1f10f61fd743d3a3fa1e8169efef2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ad177677-9664-42cd-9bf2-17a10eef6e1d.filesusr.com/ugd/f8915e_ee741837b7fb451f9432e2b73a5bcadd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://60883313-e483-4213-bdf2-3844198a3b35.filesusr.com/ugd/3ba96b_2c08c12129594b93a2804aa12cf03a5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://200ee3fc-349d-4871-b5c3-2c1c69b60476.filesusr.com/ugd/7b00a0_ec5a41d525554362bc43282bc7d1613b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddc15895-e138-4d64-b23a-2c0c3a89566b/how_to_monitor_power_usage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f3874c2d-c116-49c2-b7b6-9300dc8fc43e.filesusr.com/ugd/b11f6d_3cca1ffe3eab416785da45c05689bc83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb53a74f-f0b2-43c7-8094-0c1add3327a5/voxedifujulagepadojitulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c941d99d-b58b-4215-81ce-525e38db2b81.filesusr.com/ugd/2dc4cf_17a62beea06648538c71f62755d29faf.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2D 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 608eb2709c7dc7b5cf20ebbf1b59acb826b6758d7364711ea2643ee013fee642
font_01_sfnt_off0001001c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001C 11448 bytes
SHA-256: e55c5768c4c19bf80da93bba5f66408cbab2de4316a64b378eda07989afff20e
font_02_sfnt_off000126c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361