Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42f090830ff424fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-03-24 04:05:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7a14073922cbed40bcc6ff2566b00485 SHA-1: 26e0d299ce6bafe889be32924408d6bc359b6582 SHA-256: 42f090830ff424fbf9f052d5e1ab0596eb669aac21f473af8ff380e972c8594c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and employing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=hp+pavilion+27xi+specifications PDF link annotation
    • http://stepka2016.xyz/my_friend_dahmer_novelldsxt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413978/normal_5ff3a87496776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmosiotzs.fun/zumixobanewodazokoidw7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicwoolshop.com/366707983271cvya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449184/normal_603a1b4344600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443804/normal_6049293b43ad0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420260/normal_60185e3e67e4a.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/d29bde4f-4e6b-486a-b329-e97a63251d0d/pathfinder_player_companion_adventurers_armory_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf61a777-0629-4c53-bb58-997dc9873cfa/wokikagolomenefunikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/61dec14b-4531-479d-99ba-7808d245b4c1/bukawatatotafojaserifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c8027e1-9878-41b3-a9ef-32ba2b6bcd02.filesusr.com/ugd/185811_9332a263047f48ef89490f2360e81faa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://74fc1a11-d445-4ffb-bc6b-7a79e5a65a18.filesusr.com/ugd/097bd5_4fdee987a8914d499ddae1020ff5d3fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d4f1f58f-bd44-402a-a4b0-a3aa01e36dbf.filesusr.com/ugd/dffefa_9471a8591c24428d8197b5efdfe56268.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24316a99-263a-46b5-b0e4-e6d01394293a/98367688122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4aa0cd45-24e9-4923-8883-1abef0b71af9/rasezarekurozesixised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/093e6da7-8a31-46ef-959d-4f08537a3264/suzosumekopugebejekuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a146b927-ed54-472d-b3a8-6b137e313b92.filesusr.com/ugd/4d400c_dc366bab63cf4c2aac2319380d5bb715.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76cc2061-d550-4719-863c-918cd66d7cdc/eriksons_stages_of_development_journal_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://229c3593-bb94-4e5d-9b9f-ca3747df48ef.filesusr.com/ugd/145364_3e4b06537a684a4ca1f5736c1ca184ac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://caf0f927-206f-4b4e-aa34-0dd3da53679b.filesusr.com/ugd/83d902_cdf6f8ccd1fe4dc29da196562b94ee48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db2bbeb9-8c06-4329-9fb5-09fc076575de/44688669509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a260958-fa16-4b95-a2bf-b45fb945417e/how_do_i_pair_my_logitech_headset_to_computer.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_off00010d91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D91 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 175869e17afcd1cffa7c760ff74d16fe4cb7e18b5a7a57a68d1c17ee9575b641
font_01_sfnt_off00011f79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F79 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 05cc90d9b691f5b667b2515f09fafc53330a7bfa0c08a1c905c8e5849b8b99e6