Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44152da0821f87ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-03-23 14:47:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5add8116211bff981197751307b575b1 SHA-1: cd4bf10fe834cf88bb1cb0de1a3f6517f73431aa SHA-256: 44152da0821f87ef06f290336bbde70a77691fc76e0c1da19588ec9bffa95f6f
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, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious URL identified is seumenha.ru, which is likely part of a phishing or scam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=calidad+de+vida+en+mexico+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kirorijebe/jbHfIja/san_andreas_mod_installer_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gulezepu/0Iiejaq/2006420857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/matajikiwov/z0heXjj/bitesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zegetaru/hgijijc/amazon_prime_new_movie_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tupinikuwexopej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070806/8552580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tibakekavero/c0jdIhg/nonprofit_cfo_jobs_nyc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kepedeko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135959580/3148970.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/lomogas/java_string_format_int_leading_zeros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78225f36-02dc-40de-b0fa-df87bfec374c/zimaworufefubikarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8d537faf-e869-4ed9-a29f-988560fab1dc.filesusr.com/ugd/0cce51_d9bc357e19be43789de2ab5b9ea7f373.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea721ee9-3c84-4eac-8fd6-c24eb9337191/16_pulgadas_cuantos_centimetros_es.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e20aa6b-77ef-4f11-9344-5454fb7c649c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb3aa9_b82401fa845a4c909768c2f4a8264d33.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9dabaa9d-9fe8-4729-b449-fe5f3ade535c/how_much_should_i_pay_for_computer_repair_technician.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8d2868a3-57b7-484c-81f6-493c1c4f5daa.filesusr.com/ugd/a8ca0f_b3ea4852b6a14061972b9d1e3a877508.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://badbb018-ab4e-499b-b788-960949b82e3d.filesusr.com/ugd/4f4c56_d0172f5c2592473d9aab0ccd8f5e60e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3c23e24-2b19-4e0e-8073-60a4311bb667/summer_escapes_15_ft_pool_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurupixabogivaz/kolasenabopesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://29ce6865-365c-47c4-9f0a-635d6f965865.filesusr.com/ugd/0d6b77_1f51fa603efd4d6a8cc48956f9c17e6f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8ba888e-8f71-4fde-8303-550399648f4e.filesusr.com/ugd/17ce20_699d6092753946d4a025628b0ef91398.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rudelazifizuvo/aila_re_mala_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://923a8ca3-316b-4844-b38f-9bc955ad4852.filesusr.com/ugd/312e0e_3f6177ca7919410ab6810a4ac46aaf37.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97185fa6-a11b-4ed1-87f4-a3cfdc2d9dcf/max_lucado_online_church_youtube.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_off00014088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14088 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 67c1c0f57b7d1f1a6da8170a55a6b13bddf9af43f9a82f8941fb53ac69228823
font_01_sfnt_off000152aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152AA 11900 bytes
SHA-256: c98b8e17c6fee5bfaa93a105c649eaa0c0b1908834248dae712de39d550800e8