Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454f4ac77b110b8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-03-19 10:35:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2cb75fde830f5d961ea4befbd9722ded SHA-1: b7942766fcf89cfb318b70392f9f25496dc7dfd7 SHA-256: 454f4ac77b110b8aa593ea490be70ff60cf89676aabd2e2687f72790835e387b
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The 'Password-protected archive lure' heuristic indicates the document's intent is to trick users into downloading a password-protected file, likely to bypass security scanning. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a potential for downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=comment+fusionner+2+pdf+ensemble PDF link annotation
    • https://wirafoxojobukof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608935/b197b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trastqort.online/hot_blast_wood_stove_blower2l8oz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kijapadawoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900431/7329818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1fps.ru/americanah_book_sparknotesnmgo2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xadularapiro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437383/wajoviwodifulumakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodaweziwov.mypressonline.com/74980838516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakekoramiduwin.getenjoyment.net/melegipejuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bidumijedurazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437194/tolugobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retezuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741149/6219010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migobagola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874333/gosutuwafu_lixodo_malumokide_texiwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-salez.site/fagenebipejimonemobodalwl4v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guwawafike.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135338161/pikabulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesorus.mywebcommunity.org/the_body_electric_book_review.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/xuxifuzituwu/zusokopawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://87c8fc71-818b-4167-bf0d-2ac3bc49ffd1.filesusr.com/ugd/f9d4cd_a6b1958817904b36b7f386117f6081da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8f1c0ae7-1ba6-4c51-a623-4d29f5e3aebb.filesusr.com/ugd/c1615c_f4e4bb84d4d845b2942c5162409039fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gupawupigawono/background_music_maker_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gumegulaxi/61279124962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/desekusoxi/cmhc_rental_market_report_montreal.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_off0000e08e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08E 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 8326ed31c1d5eabe60824d94400c5c95aa411e19648628fc25d5b547d96a7c1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FC 11780 bytes
SHA-256: 9ed6ecfa583d1d24aafe4af63a37a4b5016dee20363edd8cc0210edc9de4d3b3