Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 437627018f2c8b09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-24 19:54:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2c85471a2eb1283539b3d35eb4d746fb SHA-1: 27d6ea2dd753019b0278b24c9631cbd5061b1a77 SHA-256: 437627018f2c8b09b33af8e7f37cc0ed05a1c1ebab3cbfdeb351d4c265af9f38
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 hosting services, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=is+not+an+underlying+assumption+of+cost-volume-profit+analysis PDF link annotation
    • https://vikurevago.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606257/bugutewonoluto-bixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://favonewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695639/1da5b2d7399d31f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/totarujined/RDXhiw9/ziwavugado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391314/normal_6030ccaee9e39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484103/normal_5fe765e589455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413693/normal_6029df42875aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jevikepuja/jjlhggd/treatment_guidelines_for_uti_in_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovepofaji.22web.org/48987513640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459791/normal_5fd81a76b4f91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dutedape/jbohjha/vexed_netflix_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405414/normal_5ffdc7a0a783a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kigoxeni/1FhajcQ/loxiruzoxafepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxamajapaga.22web.org/77964867212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruvonusebex/kgjhatL/shooting_in_kingston_park_newcastle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farowug/best_fingerstyle_blues_guitar_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gixirojozogufux/xuwukunigape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorenivi.rf.gd/ph_acido_y_basico.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_off0000ec78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC78 5604 bytes
SHA-256: bea975499bb82372e994eebf24e7d95fb5e9fc32ef4797291b99c319ea394055
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8D 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 4d8a0f5f245bded55525d7c4ac73c4dbac6e68c43deaa0b571891ba803fd85f1

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