Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 495f4771e89edcbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-04-28 06:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 825e53694a08bdc61f968c8927e8458e SHA-1: b089f1fee2d78eff342e17b16caf03d6f7d4e2a5 SHA-256: 495f4771e89edcbf76d8429e3d47ed1de5c09017e585c993af9e5a415d85eaf5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' point towards a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=franklin+covey+speed+of+trust+cards PDF link annotation
    • http://kudopifupelixi.22web.org/58748379733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482023/normal_602c006791669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476943/normal_5ffd53f080349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nevezewikuzi.iblogger.org/febeloruzutilobibavazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4527859/normal_602ded889b2c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402956/normal_602f52e7ec116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426810/normal_606a9abff2777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikurukapuviwib.22web.org/wojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99512118-80c8-49e7-ab20-d697b5bb6468/star_wars_rise_of_skywalker_what_does_it_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/547a57bd-aef9-4134-922f-d635d13312fc/98217073267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6e71e0d-4c3c-4506-af54-4e4996c5c92d/17154325620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9cf93ecd-64ee-4ad6-afcc-f350577a7522.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_7d00bb6fc6de454dab872c75340bb7d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b86c88d-e00f-4fd7-b0e0-da2d91c0a9c6/strange_tales_from_a_chinese_studio_themes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lajoxugulip.epizy.com/what_do_evicted_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e05653fc-386e-4c8b-889d-738aee72c63e.filesusr.com/ugd/62421a_922af3fe102b47c588b664aec6224388.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/566576dd-a5a8-45b0-9017-f66f80d74ac9/niluxofexopaganavanelosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9dee1b3-16a4-4d87-be79-8f7163147b2a/how_to_install_battery_tender_junior.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce55c564-0e79-48ac-bd91-a034cff8554b.filesusr.com/ugd/bd1fc0_5f1fa0bf39a449eb8d50ea01ffaba579.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e26dc784-fa46-4601-9f6d-57686faaf216.filesusr.com/ugd/c66525_f1e21e6331b142458f92d20404745951.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d6fa4fc-6f12-4eb7-9e9d-095051ec3a8b/bofawizinajarokob.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_off00012adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADC 5328 bytes
SHA-256: e86a0c39fabb05f221aa3edf10c7562b627c3d25e46b0d0103096b70e41a6f4c
font_01_sfnt_off00013d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D21 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 60dc8fa6549723ad4f65d8ed94fc607a17464950ce8e34ed6bfff50e09ed8a18