Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8de64c7bbe1129…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-05-15 11:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3529b48c5bc74a6670776bc040c71f2f SHA-1: 9b94d21ed4a7bb3995e7d4697f714cf60a23cdc2 SHA-256: 3e8de64c7bbe1129bc9c44761be01a2096cd1676783d06f3d68cedac988e2f21
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm containing numerous external URIs, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection indicating maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to a large number of external websites, as evidenced by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' firings. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs suggests a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=d%2526d+basic+set+rulebook+1983+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gudibetujem.iblogger.org/bus_games_free_for_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libadelalisam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134579317/golozavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashion-deals.xyz/figuras_de_lenguaje_translationu69tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoplus.info/fisher_grandpa_bear_wood_stove_manualpn2yn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxinawolukomat.iblogger.org/types_of_phobias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punalavivex.22web.org/kekuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezomiwutamanap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362688/saberoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekilogeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775247/a4194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somukenevibo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525583/9a8d1a9a3382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxemajoxololur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070692/204bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lady-bug.club/12991166455z3363.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/91dc53b4-8f3a-4824-9a9f-4ce9bd6f7632/55807335803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putojoner.rf.gd/lijegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0902be0f-98ef-4f87-aad7-6d6dee89ce41/metal_gear_solid_5_quiet_blood_outfit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6beb221f-4075-4e64-90e4-a846fc4e30f3/71740834339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f116c50-8f6a-421f-b5c6-75f81053351a/83703177131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd3ddfad-a666-433e-b974-549a81ce6fb4/97596539547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5a3dde8-76ac-4c33-8b11-944024d59f7b/g_shock_g-7900a-4dr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7531225d-f1c7-4ab5-af3c-67ffdf17ed75/tovavubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/843ecc50-218a-4493-a486-ef7e0f980d9d/mujolavivujudavuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biradenaj.rf.gd/wirata.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_off000121dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DD 4156 bytes
SHA-256: 278cac2e78d1b4950b7c4295bc4000fde350c7c8fc6a349bfdf9917f5098d62c
font_01_sfnt_off0001300c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300C 11532 bytes
SHA-256: 0805eea3ae23d24cf9f0dbc791343a567937a4aa0f290a789386d1a0958c4109