Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3688ef912669b157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-05-17 21:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b53abe299ce5b83502da91760cb82448 SHA-1: 46305ca4cd811cbda23195a75b4bc19bffcd1fd7 SHA-256: 3688ef912669b15724cf670fc72af747092f9b78d11f793a7e99428a1a3ca5c7
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 pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=natural+pesticide+for+leaf+footed+bugs PDF link annotation
    • http://vajokopopozikem.medianewsonline.com/acca_f1_practice_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carishr.com/fate_grand_order_jp_guiderpxqc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kigumelez.medianewsonline.com/84688213368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kegewibenufugix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682471/8186220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grusha.space/my_btc_wallet_12hbxz7mzn3lgt3sjcss6ys4tvefpbwcptz2wwq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegexexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134385137/lebazigaremara_fovuwajufeg_murobedirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienvozvrat.site/casio_fx-cg10_manual9clj2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulabepotinujeb.mypressonline.com/zoology_practical_class_12_tamil_medium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e60c805d-b9e1-47fc-b045-983511e9ac1f.filesusr.com/ugd/116bb2_2fcf932097364237abe7f961027d6838.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://170a7d3c-74f0-42f5-9ead-98ae292a4922.filesusr.com/ugd/a18aa6_f16f8cf41eea46dcb671d889fc81e150.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://02796127-04ec-4c85-b270-c6f7310ebb18.filesusr.com/ugd/ce0e6d_fc7a48b6fbd4461abb8ac1e4594ef9b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tokit/edgerouter_x_setup_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bubodeliza/center_parcs_whinfell_forest_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77047a80-9f17-4504-a563-a097c25ca12e.filesusr.com/ugd/5c8b2f_308007e53fb04f8eb8bf5bd779c6bb34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://18e99e0c-7034-4a8c-9069-267580a295b8.filesusr.com/ugd/b337f5_d3f0d74ab8e648c19db869279a78f8f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6ba8113a-99dc-4618-97bf-d7180f10ff72.filesusr.com/ugd/b6edda_5ce364beb1164e5fb23aecb301d8650a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b36ad067-21ef-4b17-9055-1dfcbb3fb98c.filesusr.com/ugd/8673ad_3b8c5b0aaf7041f1aefd491d1921626a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://34e51215-b586-4e01-b3ea-a219475a7b91.filesusr.com/ugd/46481b_3dc1f3d970e84c14978f16a5bdcf7979.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7b806e58-2e0f-4c22-b5e1-e0f71c4d6e86.filesusr.com/ugd/8da65f_57ef2180497d41499fc38ae5d214d844.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAA 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 9fc78a2f531f567a1035679d37cfe8f12fec5fe5004c94987d60dae78ec25a82
font_01_sfnt_off00010032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10032 11520 bytes
SHA-256: c5897f89867eb06177f325a00d54682be3a37d69a0e86f87a7fa43aeb80c7a3d