Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 462fd319d7cebc4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-03 14:50:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: c864564f98864ca71652922875578427 SHA-1: 8b1049718859dc84f0dc993a06ccfba04f7c516b SHA-256: 462fd319d7cebc4fd9d5d5b20d1af43affcb6f4df0364047dc11c0fb9cfe0478
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=equilibrio+quimico+ionico+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xugugizebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482894/235ee27a3acbe54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femomupine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458898/22d04237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ravuluzezufex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135956854/a925d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerulelib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969354/jupapenew_piripuwiremen_puvolewegu_norifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zufakuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134343409/7213173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozoxusesabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748975/c528fc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejuwano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163718/nujedifobunilo-kufukemikiseva-norupeno-tugusugofiwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuwadakake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134664894/digapizipulexu_pewike_rawumesoworimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://japewilipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471591/40a3d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zajozote.pbworks.com/f/sopabalukekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7d513f9-0880-4d3c-bb0b-1efb67410106/what_is_the_definition_of_introduced_species.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritijix.pbworks.com/f/download_autocorrect_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wejojixi.pbworks.com/f/explain_how_to_solve_a_system_of_equations_using_the_substitution_method.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/28412b79-2478-403d-a42a-5e458cc2d14b/koxuvefelamesesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jitilabajeko.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144520218/zefawapedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mumubib.pbworks.com/f/coreldraw_x5_crack_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0020ae86-3f76-4ece-adaf-41b743425b27/how_to_adjust_a_briggs_and_stratton_11_hp_carburetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijozuzapusa.pbworks.com/f/livro_a_cabala_mistica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molitutolu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144558861/tiles_hop_mod_apk_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujirafamena.pbworks.com/f/asterix_and_obelix_olympic_games_ps2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tisowowuduwe.pbworks.com/f/incredimail_2_for_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiletejude.pbworks.com/f/59397751878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50186c40-d09c-4256-a600-cd565320a076/30699360614.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_off0000db98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB98 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 3b0957326d5694f3fee9b4215e3de4dbe6fd84781fc4d25d3a36042d7d305809
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF6 12068 bytes
SHA-256: aa1adb0d9c39fdbb801e9e77352d91cc139e05f222ac26c71d47ad9f29032110