Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45cb94d2a01fb6ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-03-15 15:44:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: e9172e7fe4a236a059ba51a2d0a61504 SHA-1: 339dbb568940ddddff40c5c55f793acc8c510c42 SHA-256: 45cb94d2a01fb6ade09480d8b9db2fdaaac576ea8ea69f11a4fb55073c0f980c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=bsc+nursing+1st+year+biochemistry+syllabus+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xepinepuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969238/c71d56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mafobosapufi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505980/cecad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitadelo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712934/f4b7edd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memuvarava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384606/59431c81b9d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikigetevakawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413362/bifabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginijamuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409148/fuguvak-magov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarozevalir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437937/6767865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuxijalubekuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602409/9475024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worojipe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382243/kunilorawen-jigotukaxo-zukezowodijazup-xixusixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talotemeve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606578/e46f92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mafaredoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695491/1feefb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakavafufegig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323197/zinuvi-ripapoxosax-vawilaxiwusoti-dobenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zemegazi.22web.org/52126904053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jifujurudale.epizy.com/72004865989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a085669-a8dc-40eb-b1d3-71ea9d660f60.filesusr.com/ugd/cafc24_358aa1d92fbd40b19620b2378f0cd423.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e437b920-fa79-41d5-b67c-0ca059f4e77a.filesusr.com/ugd/d97c10_381d87c7d7154db69fc63e093cc9c1f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pasawe/how_do_ford_f250_locking_hubs_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixadamobus.epizy.com/what_is_the_main_idea_in_each_stanza_of_the_road_not_taken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xukirizugukugi/lujagimadaxidotowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6d3a1c5-32ce-46e9-ae92-c5b8d84d65d9.filesusr.com/ugd/a3b54b_b0f7bec22b6045e6aa5b9647c2f672a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nadedafusefemej.rf.gd/vba_search_all_sheets.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_off0000e5e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E5 5912 bytes
SHA-256: cf54c5943af2c824801aff9d9548db64adc1cfddd9bbdb7b8cf007447824c0cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E7 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 148e89dbf6cfe0fd69170c884c83724e673c0e50cb094b81740e7ec9ff88ce17