Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4990e8f87de21e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-03-29 21:40:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ce3ca9acd380d9389c5c42d098861488 SHA-1: c438ab8242da52918e135f776bdc7cdd64f1f31f SHA-256: 4990e8f87de21e2712277dd6e11c7419bcb6746fc109d1254f0e38fed020943a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title and numerous external links, many of which are part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of a critical heuristic for PDF SEO link farming and a high ML score indicates a strong likelihood of malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://lozipotod.ru/aws?utm_term=boss+monster+tips PDF link annotation
    • http://edevletorg.com/95160869166qe6lg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardioactiveitalia.site/51043606004ya0k8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479470/normal_6034329874e9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrumwallet.buzz/actualtests_exam_engine_free86rtv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelistens.xyz/vufutedonutuvoni57ys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471996/normal_605d80fe25b92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382638/normal_602a419dcc885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ac09d6fb-20d1-47e2-97cb-2568fc137cdf.filesusr.com/ugd/03dcd4_0e4ff9c724164178b98260d7076db357.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voropa/how_to_recycle_canon_toner_cartridges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/furunumaroxun/3618960270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimokami.rf.gd/minozulosudopasefebodolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xitajorowemep.epizy.com/xalupofumowarojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakapudakadu/pobixozubegenujakuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jusuberu/60724436936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8964868a-aef6-4da0-9a9b-29de7c28e0c5.filesusr.com/ugd/b910ae_6dba457885cb4300b47791e32de922a0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sedowedi/textview_animation_in_android_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zeworibuzoza/format_string_length_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowavef.epizy.com/98839455564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0503187d-52cd-4237-9521-a3cb9bf551ae.filesusr.com/ugd/5bb01c_e2657a9e6e5f4296bb3aa9843f8bd4a0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zesixefe/18839460935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9de673a2-3b8e-40eb-bbf5-c0ad8e71a3da.filesusr.com/ugd/bd5c68_57df47b0d6844fbfa711acdbc4a0080a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baxekojojexusol/gupijixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinuwosoko.rf.gd/31861406137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://70fbc5f3-53e4-4072-9ff7-a5862d19847b.filesusr.com/ugd/bb3bf9_a40c7722547d49248f7238f7ded878a0.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f6a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A1 4772 bytes
SHA-256: 5386bbcb2a9ddb05577ab98728eec2f616161a8c5a7eff2b3262d3613e2b67af
font_01_sfnt_off000106c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C7 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0bcbfba03955696280f565cd5694819beefbeda664ffe2534539db7e05b807