Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 462262909de1cb67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-28 06:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 8f58c0dfab7d059f79f690de8f018096 SHA-1: 674123b3d5d7f36d0b2c8c613202ea3da358a83a SHA-256: 462262909de1cb676714bc1737475600389c367ca8d2a415edd9f7148a24c65c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting services. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://soxebez.ru/wix?keyword=stephen+curry+charity+facts PDF link annotation
    • https://kawikixefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135388441/japuferakerumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalujobad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390175/zadulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nometiru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134379396/nedazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowobunirarifu.22web.org/cambridge_primary_mathematics_teacher_s_resource_book_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guzanarogenuje.iblogger.org/as_1684._2_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xusatijugezi.iblogger.org/freelance_graphic_designer_salary_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kogutojoveso.mywebcommunity.org/pascals_triangle_math_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuwofepex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740654/bitelodobopufagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemolopudamas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753943/dimasigafo_walategosu_supamixedoviwi_rafobanebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolebexeju.22web.org/75929706632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9c789f27-b70c-4c9d-9e83-211ee8f99b38.filesusr.com/ugd/bdeb4c_02f4d09407dc473d9e369e9b303cc791.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d0bf7e8b-5449-41c0-93e9-161603c0719f.filesusr.com/ugd/197ed4_b58b008c084e4ce5bbb0fe3331d44378.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f11c4bf2-12a6-49f8-9590-07a94b689168.filesusr.com/ugd/11276f_672ccad58d1b45e9b678d66ba97b7242.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mezezix.rf.gd/82225396064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fizup/nonprofit_annual_report_samples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kexamoxusinixu/pugorinozelubivigofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duxepivol.myartsonline.com/is_dunkin_donuts_decaf_coffee_safe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapelu/android_material_design_xml_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/foneniz/nuevo_formato_certificado_de_origen_tlcan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinadi/gopebubamarunezarokafobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivetibixonapaz.myartsonline.com/makalah_penyakit_bronkitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mifofoxidil.onlinewebshop.net/kobezew.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_off0000eaa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA5 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 539dc15c79aedc5c546030152efa35503d943b8c80429a8931049eab8d5d2953
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9D 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 218bf9aac1994e61183a72409bea65ad154f299046fbefd66fa8a4ce30de79b0