Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 455d67b765fa7fd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-04-23 03:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c2e8f734439a0e6cbd14e8d351870917 SHA-1: 9c029d3de84626fe5313f544d82b690a1f459033 SHA-256: 455d67b765fa7fd3efbdf81c6fb67a609ba4e4f9b0276f3554079ac2c8d0f743
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs points to a watering hole or redirection strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+red+box+cards+against+humanity PDF link annotation
    • https://vowipolijej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713390/1178239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xufizuwerab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738786/76c7fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zasoremejoka.iblogger.org/sonutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libakitaxejadeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096258/2530531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakijuzovukuw.22web.org/norme_afnor_z44_005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimimidinom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453749/kifokudodelanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefozakozup/gcBrdgj/tamil_ringtones_app_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gakivako.iblogger.org/fesupirosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobajejuz/jdgi9gf/final_fantasy_dimensions_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewerigavuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681779/rulapomox_zurenonobefal_logogulizotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolojadulosa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/xobexafebutixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gokarunedod/WhbptYT/54108220223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texodixoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857215/radupawofutaxoxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferofetilusef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346026/wisuviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/runusamopit/chaywhe/happy_birthday_hubby_cake_images_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebafazar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265880/tamowimotupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xuvotawelotito.epizy.com/8d_problem_solving_technique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidovagupuwosep.rf.gd/definicion_de_cancer_de_pancreas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jadudusujuje/acronis_true_image_2018_bootcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/posufij/91044795753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momoxorepuvo.epizy.com/xugijinupapeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desetezovadu.epizy.com/lividagezivezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wemazun/32499203404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dibedamoka/xumazesojuvewomitobaride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/satulibaren/50319087578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapeduz.epizy.com/kodoxuv.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_off0001456b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456B 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 2b4e8fbd1a155a1a58b31093e12ffd3e89a7ef9a47945ad82e975880e1860b1f
font_01_sfnt_off00015886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15886 11900 bytes
SHA-256: ad20b51a3c3e553bb9278e4a8e6f0bf27aa7b40ff889527c07c412fd1e8d8e50