Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40bac3aeca68129c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-03-06 09:43:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: b62638395b3ea5b4263e7b515bc40651 SHA-1: a984e161cd49f85e509ec761b9c364915f496070 SHA-256: 40bac3aeca68129c7b3361e05d4cacac364a5cc96f7330be967fc80432b75ecf
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs, with a primary focus on SEO manipulation or directing users to potentially harmful content. The presence of multiple disposable domains and the structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=how+much+does+nordictrack+charge+for+assembly PDF link annotation
    • https://nosuzodudoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588086/ziluzamesatedikasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subilitukufune.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134629352/wuximinuluwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kesegupopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131766/3444414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393370/normal_600360a5b0792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454432/normal_601c5bc2441c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481830/normal_6030540985485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regifevadep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476302/bizizatalaxawan_julapav_kofupevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415309/normal_6000347a28d5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393356/normal_6024476aa9948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisikude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606420/470fd86a75eb1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fusorebumobem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986296/011a85c9b96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warapado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437563/2203892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifijaxamop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332722/ralafakenawulev_gobewimufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munipepuxorikoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969311/dawuxugixu-xasizimupunudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381752/normal_601b230e223b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://ruzovufu.epizy.com/comprehension_passages_with_answers_for_grade_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dd3528e8-ded0-4753-843e-0d3cb9f542e7.filesusr.com/ugd/4d6844_4e7c75f7918747bab8af2e4b052cc965.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a815f367-2516-4b88-9496-eed07d5c1eb7.filesusr.com/ugd/665c20_5bfa9718845643739b83887ba5afe72d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://47e244ab-6b1f-4ae7-97e8-86de5b619f9f.filesusr.com/ugd/e1d12c_92a663acbaf24e4a909429b33007f595.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e966359d-176b-477a-9ad9-c314bea94227.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6f14_a3b440f1def74c4a896703a1b9e1a5ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d8b2927-5c4d-40df-b593-c6bd35e19528.filesusr.com/ugd/1adac8_c969e3b275114d6ba655e786b2441496.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xegiwofune.rf.gd/16261695050.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_off0000f0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AB 5796 bytes
SHA-256: ffd37dd0b7e8d094efa77b6808c1fa3b4b4cde474e147244bbb7ddf51c4b3881
font_01_sfnt_off0001044b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044B 11340 bytes
SHA-256: b9ca156d93338fdebf2aa72572e7c10ae693064a569c4921b7cf4d0205bd36be