Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c4ecaeb05c63d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-03-24 00:23:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 8a7488f16b9b9fd76d83932f5c542a94 SHA-1: e041c6139c6d43a4e0f0fb4c98c86a91f6767674 SHA-256: 48c4ecaeb05c63d2e13cc018c0efb96edccaeb0df1a7e163b11d33d04ca33e5b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to biblical law, which is likely a lure to direct users to malicious or spam websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=que+es+la+ley+mosaica+segun+la+biblia PDF link annotation
    • http://teguruta.medianewsonline.com/calculus_made_easy_by_silvanus_p._thompson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goladelexugezi.sportsontheweb.net/ruxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jifonakilux/hjgdggL/75734820081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varnisvakq.ru/carranza_book_of_periodontology_free0sait.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jidobimatu/eZiaFic/dude_perfect_videos_overtime_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ronutalin/K3khjja/asean_ki_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bisidilit/3gcpDjb/ice_scream_2_horror_game_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemonrivals.online/91421367230we315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rawavuzom/cihiajf/free_nfl_streaming_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonozowibewoz.mypressonline.com/pathologie_de_l_appareil_urinaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levotavo.scienceontheweb.net/73822323082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ea64ff4c-51e6-4efc-8cc1-399682447901.filesusr.com/ugd/961f18_bb1476bf5e8a46ac8dfcb8e11fc3ed28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73a1781f-5c9f-4c76-8a11-a8e8c44f336a.filesusr.com/ugd/d9f7b5_4a8344667404414185f7d22da935fd04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3d543ff1-f98d-4463-a2ab-bdbdd273373e/givul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manuwakagekewu.onlinewebshop.net/ajaya_book_1_roll_of_the_dice_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://59e5a08b-0d8d-455f-a3a7-35a3b781ab3e.filesusr.com/ugd/784815_1f75d7bd82634bd2b0b467d4e3c2347d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://217ba8a6-026c-4a9e-b1ce-2eadff0a4a08.filesusr.com/ugd/3d7af5_a345168f012d42f9ab2d02d3a882430f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67dec473-0a9c-497c-80b1-62a4c84c5046.filesusr.com/ugd/0aab01_317eef9cd4b74e48abc0c7111aeafff0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://84bd2c60-91d0-47b6-9565-6ae8a6593e58.filesusr.com/ugd/963627_54d0c04511fc436cb15e7d6af3b37c37.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0fe83ef2-ed6b-4f04-a52d-31fe3c58d8d1.filesusr.com/ugd/ade4e6_10a0cf90c6944f49b836cd813d0f0f77.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://033a7475-7ccb-45c1-8f1e-38fd320d48d0.filesusr.com/ugd/03a576_6a5ab4f408eb4c8292744290c3a54185.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba8664b9-076c-407f-b674-04a3b2767908/teorema_de_demoivre_laplace.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_off00012afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFA 5328 bytes
SHA-256: a50c63d7f6359c0ac287b2c6e5057cde10e1ebf464ce8ed52669f7f48d723f54
font_01_sfnt_off00013d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D16 11692 bytes
SHA-256: c5a4adf771b801a2cc70146dd12d51a632d7a9442ae234688e8acb07f3996aae