Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42674d264b33df12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-03-21 11:21:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 7753f84d2c20a782b24cdddabb4891f6 SHA-1: 33575ea87a63abdebfa943dab54cef177df6312d SHA-256: 42674d264b33df12d29d907e1fe784d5e1739bd3eaebc0a898c4e09bab0c3eca
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM point towards a campaign distributing malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=cook%2527s+essentials+2qt+digital+stainless+steel+pressure+cooker+instructions PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493589/normal_6051af9b54158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lami-lashes.site/rijonefopubegagi609bw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slamelina.website/fumubagozusimitifamonenelwl28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/negapevu/dWjijit/boxing_fighting_clash_mod_apk_android_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gugukufetufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134337187/fafuforupamogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storeeu.info/aptoide_6._5._3_apk_for_pc7iu8x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afracheat3.xyz/can_a_co_trustee_act_independentlyshop7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497666/normal_601fd7a1cf8ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pulovafafita/Jhjijib/gasumejalogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bureaureport.info/1621683329lkp7t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimutovila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856698/rozugujaba_dibotozalizixu_popizotipod_sobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munuteme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862418/fijixasobexisunazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://083189c9-8220-4687-a375-57be19a37228.filesusr.com/ugd/909b15_5c2d71fe1e0c44a89191604991498f69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://246406bc-bb0d-4f29-baed-d8a6153a9543.filesusr.com/ugd/3ddeef_12ac0cd2aab24b0c9f649c0c576523d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://23751d96-d7b3-42ca-b8ca-e459b671ea95.filesusr.com/ugd/7de994_01542289a0724cdda1ca1790e0bb2ad1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/84d596d0-f6cc-4f06-9b8f-4352767c67a1/what_does_apparatus_mean_in_earth_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9f53eded-325d-4e02-8430-7c09bd872488.filesusr.com/ugd/e04405_8211dfdf04c247b1834a32a0baf4270f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b135cc0-9708-464a-9f7d-fdde3855e6e3/how_to_schedule_an_appointment_for_your_drivers_license.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ef4ac69-b99c-4f70-8d30-71dff0696e4f/30385648419.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_off0000f19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19F 5500 bytes
SHA-256: eabd1ff979c7a69b18713d136a0d76615dc240215c656a2e105d4f47528bc05c
font_01_sfnt_off00010466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10466 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 5c990f4b9116c1a3fe1c3034a44d4527703cc583c1db41fa6ec48367de95844c