Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4c397e9a1f50d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-04-11 03:25:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 74f8cf2ffaf3ad4c6c28357df4e87936 SHA-1: b262559017ba4cc94981d6fba65f17cf257b1fdf SHA-256: 3e4c397e9a1f50d253655693d56a2cb6e7ac6115869d046856c3bb8adff983c0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a large number of links pointing to external resources. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=the+mousetrap+movie+trailer PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xumesapaxoku/hghbIic/callaway_golf_club_sets_womens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/niporatibu/eghqggd/52946112591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nokajavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969653/6e864d0bd4d27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rifojiditesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379396/defekapuk_zexex_dofazaxigop_sisesenukavido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lofokuvowuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362742/zabeduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jigugupidutugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813301/7505008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notowupoguja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316513/zozavulogipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixeligufokup/vureniwadogazuwesaduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae461db9-666d-4827-987b-594c3c1f378e/24413045407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://35e1cc1d-5f6c-4a41-9b1b-b9ae8dddc97a.filesusr.com/ugd/351eee_18267adb6a3d46db88923c5623195c4b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cbac2c12-6770-4011-bf02-0e18483434b7/how_to_write_a_project_scope_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c465c74-1d47-49f6-93b6-91d8b9d36ce7/16499093508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19489ef0-f54b-4d71-98c2-b9f481f40b93/83569504350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbdb5cd4-6c19-439b-90e2-83a63d4491bb/1999_honda_shadow_aero_1100_battery_cover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e43f8b93-5c32-4018-92ff-100d3d490a1e/shogun_james_clavell_synopsis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/996ff58a-780b-4c5b-a9a0-638463d2dd94/simajibemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gazivemon/metapex_calcium_hydroxide_with_iodoform_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/seriposuj/merge_mac_automator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0816b8db-db6e-4af9-a106-1766ff0f8d73.filesusr.com/ugd/06e6c8_ad7c1954affc4a6bbe1677e56a1d8189.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eec4bf29-7426-4627-8c1b-daf5dacdbb84/hermosas_criaturas_saga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71f04072-d91b-4787-82e5-15264dfaf7b8/34772727680.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_off0000f457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF457 5068 bytes
SHA-256: b4e06e66e54f58a19297e9c15dcb26f8100c3566299fc6cc33d01a4e24f38803
font_01_sfnt_off0001056c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056C 11924 bytes
SHA-256: 162c97cb023f136efd5d0794d8730761d3eebc34dd43e95766402a11f81a61b0