Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b854a93827fd86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-03-27 10:26:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2a9fb41aadf8e17e312fbdbdca1751f8 SHA-1: b1e4a1b122690d43c1f0774f6b0078df3787e02d SHA-256: 40b854a93827fd869b2f949ce14651462d7725401bd08adacd074cbc609e0b99
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=adjective+forms+in+spanish PDF link annotation
    • http://changepass.online/ukulele_strumming_patterns_4_4d4fg6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavka-karamel.ru/power_bi_interview_questions_for_3_years_experienced7imd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellforce.ru/xawudizupotilifisehfixc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467005/normal_5fcc463f6c245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyfastedcircle.xyz/fazufodufovulvwc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blancer.xyz/12340740037qog9l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desaboros.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400021/gekekidibavo_jejokafobibinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500430/normal_5ff8b061e6532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413842/normal_5ff1c59741098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinerapidsrr.com/suzuki_sidekick_lift_kitf36b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litukepulaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863372/zifex_fimerelujeni_nudaxasakezini_dugokubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtreme-sport.ru/blacks_law_dictionary_definition_of_united_states6hl5z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://famopenagunabot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688774/901857.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/01e408f8-c649-45d7-b83f-8cb04d1c41fb/tuxupabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e40da922-b0e4-44be-9878-2d4898ccab21.filesusr.com/ugd/3a38e0_4ea52189ee9345749587b1a75c029849.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://29159626-56e2-4eb2-a8c1-eb081f451e44.filesusr.com/ugd/a58502_a68eab5f28b74c6eb4a5f2f6a8291026.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d6b7645-9180-488b-9add-55822cdb2200/zisilofexizasamofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://38a589f5-619b-4230-bc7d-f88d9fc6dac5.filesusr.com/ugd/392051_37984840d6f649d1a403c028e009fa81.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://88bec3ce-9cdd-4818-a95b-bcf8ac49d1e7.filesusr.com/ugd/72df48_ddf7602652474e05b8a854c1892ed363.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_off0000d468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD468 5488 bytes
SHA-256: a7efb5ddea5735ec877a869c03cac8813039e41a4218bd8485e523ae50cee2b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F9 11288 bytes
SHA-256: e732df5a7b3fc4551ed0991b04575f03e4b9c81c28e1fbbc66df94946ddb972b