Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4743ec4e7b0f3fa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-19 16:48:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: cb13d0be0c642e374dbe909d5aed2be4 SHA-1: 993c5842adbfb2a06805f7ef0c0fd2361217b2d4 SHA-256: 4743ec4e7b0f3fa9b74db35b7bd5f1f78b36ac72a59d515e4ddae79cc827c8b7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a search query, further supporting a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=girl+scout+cookie+song+cardi+b PDF link annotation
    • http://neriwor.medianewsonline.com/sql_queries_in_dbms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tameenegypt.com/86874216133oqj3m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flash-sar.online/stock_market_trading_rules_50_golden_strategies3yq4t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465564/normal_6005dbbb81eb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zazorin.scienceontheweb.net/bililonaketogamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hackins.site/functional_movement_screen_corrective_exercises5omla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424683/normal_5fd67496637fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381551/normal_5fd1f266ab06a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressit.space/clapton_coil_ohm_guideoyqsy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401518/normal_600f9a1914459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://153f2bed-3501-4ec5-9468-ed1987511f6d.filesusr.com/ugd/f67134_9d71d84863b243dab827a3f31b377a55.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://50037ee0-0691-4a53-bdc2-b2f8f795cfa6.filesusr.com/ugd/b41a9a_63e007a2309b41bf8bbd6fedea225c7b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8e0cabef-d481-4215-b437-8a5fc4e4723c.filesusr.com/ugd/f41140_989268fa58d5446698019e0efa3bde9c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/08e64d54-89e4-4086-82ee-63f80e470e66/how_to_change_sandpaper_on_black_and_decker_mouse_sander.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b67fa923-03b4-4d21-b555-95ff628d7525.filesusr.com/ugd/1d4b90_a0606364af5745ebadc84c47160b74d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c183b790-cb34-49aa-848e-1a9f2b14dda3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_f65d33259af54d708f2fe5f9ff1d28c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://61090d85-22e6-4724-b969-52a17785150c.filesusr.com/ugd/952c2e_d63ab8c4b2984da1b3548dd2f4fc2c36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec8c99fd-5413-4e38-b6a0-2ccbba71fc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/de02f3_477a6ea982b844c0b376f56c8f963b07.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35057dd6-1d18-4acd-96c9-af3b7fddc7cd.filesusr.com/ugd/978dd5_a7498249762b4c82b48e5d4286ec7283.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40a21a61-61c5-4442-8bae-f1aa7965c39f/how_can_i_check_my_post_office_rd_balance_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6999bac-b290-4ec3-affe-50be0b9d8a0f/vizio_e601i-a3_power_supply_board.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_off0000ee0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0E 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 4474e01661becad32d1c55593461cfe9cfca4def03e5693b3aa01b54fb1871ef
font_01_sfnt_off0001004d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004D 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 16cc0e1a3dd031b054f8d4637b73e14b4e56af2bf5e31f23e977a9330306eb34