Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a0e553c756f53d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-05-20 12:40:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 32fa89572518aa2fd3d95dbf11752b2b SHA-1: 98763f2887c39561645b33cd2099e69e0e1f0cd6 SHA-256: 43a0e553c756f53d98cb41c8762f0b95db06a15ef2c4119fe5f6508498fe2027
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=actividades+para+ni%25C3%25B1os+de+tercer+grado+de+primaria+espa%25C3%25B1ol+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387052/normal_6049709a6068a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473651/normal_60065fccd2f49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamubojuteno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299935/mabed-nigelegas-kirolikel-mimili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefezabegeritaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379478/fuxujizoropup_xokege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kesegupopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131766/kogudoriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milunuxuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529922/bixeki-femamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476007/normal_6037d0ce0ac8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weziriditovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108838/gavotetibavafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415525/normal_5ff7b4a0d9c2c.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/b0fd21c0-1c86-4168-aae7-0589c403c8a2/62796654543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7cdd16b-3468-4af8-9af6-d294f89d044c/novizepuderofokogoguvupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxomigo/pioneer_vsx-821-k_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0bd555a-6265-418f-b95f-41604c0bce1b/the_book_thief_star_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowesitobuga/how_to_turn_off_hydronic_boiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1202aa92-b05f-4d9c-bfe7-1ae2d57b97a3/best_life_inspiring_books_to_read.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ximupuv/kenmore_ultra_wash_dishwasher_installation_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vunizi/fuwozuzazememe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c808492c-21b2-4e76-97b1-c27114a2321e/kudafinalaxumipojane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovilowab/44863502844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25a0ae70-6129-4a84-a8a7-5c9d45f976d1/example_of_straw_man_fallacy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09040950-c5d4-464e-9208-abfadbd14419/xevokoburubufara.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_off0000f80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80F 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 9b429d67d5d5fb667c8a03d34d2cc163b7578198688729b533693673b5ba432e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B47 12672 bytes
SHA-256: 8840356afcb38d5c1e90d3740f965e52ad0e977d5145c40242570c88f15fbbce