Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a40e4e446ed5118…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-03-17 05:39:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0b75c217ea106b7a807b7243a1fe9708 SHA-1: d33b5faa9a7df2eea452c906547eb9162e9f5bed SHA-256: 3a40e4e446ed5118456956894e7a6722dc272dc1ca89fe10c39a81ebd577e467
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various PDF documents hosted on different domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple external links and the detection of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics indicate a coordinated effort to leverage external resources.

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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=lemon+battery+science+project+hypothesis PDF link annotation
    • http://bcipreactivaperu.com/cash_flow_quadrant_in_hindidyr3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jojojidatun/cuJjjhg/tinaruxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/taruvufufezu/hevIij4/sad_doge_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vojofarakiva/ifjipsI/60377541362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalcalakk1.xyz/best_french_door_counter_depth_refrigerator_2018djsa4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatidukigag/jihfhf2/mavubojomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appless.space/796542223217z2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefazaturar/hjggmhj/xukowexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vknart.xyz/teacher_amma_tamil_movie_songsmt3hj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nujudemugipi/3YMk9ie/female_college_basketball_coaches_salaries.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/288e3e10-1f79-408d-b32a-855b565f5169/modelo_de_contrato_de_alquiler_de_local_comercial_peru_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b064d0e4-88d6-4b7e-8087-8ebf790fcba6.filesusr.com/ugd/ca32a8_d265097ab6da45c39143fc566ede275d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e25d18a-fe75-4e69-95f3-45c43f63d01c/losuwavaxipitujebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b23ebcb4-2e41-4c68-a408-584c84124782.filesusr.com/ugd/5a2446_cfebcda3876f4b989a3ea33f0fd2ce8e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6cbe2f5c-748b-4bc6-b691-25a968a47885.filesusr.com/ugd/d6b5da_0490ac30236746518b719210326ccc12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://488c2ff9-9ff4-499e-8f11-525115e20b22.filesusr.com/ugd/8aba0c_f71e1eaf2401422baf6da3ad0f91212f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8137cd1e-393d-4948-8193-eca935452849.filesusr.com/ugd/756799_4f0fe4728df946c99fdffe5483c40fbb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7aeb6a5a-a7b1-4721-ae7a-80a84a33362e/ib_biology_lab_report_template.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF837 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 2a84c65a85b14ffd84835e0d2271c9c773965136d55da6203380e00d9cb4981e
font_01_sfnt_off00010a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6A 2712 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2fcfe04efd2f321e39a674ee0945bb8905f26df2647d19541a735641b326a0
font_02_sfnt_off000115b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B4 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 13cfeabacced51ddd52a00b616b3dbcf555a3a78fc5f3ec314c5f8fe4410d09b