Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a194960aecc655d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 10:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 3543e4e44f375c6e199ba5595f150831 SHA-1: 5dcf40c90460d596fcecdcf45dd0617a1b00b1b0 SHA-256: 4a194960aecc655d08284c4f5e1a938ede043c0ee0a75a9308faf55c4b486435
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure related to "Azar gems hack 2020", likely intended to drive traffic to malicious or ad-fraud related sites. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection, strongly supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=azar+gems+hack+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://wajefoxefibivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814680/6788504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxevuforuwax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680831/8210517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vutubazedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740780/8946166.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/ee706aa4-9398-459a-9323-8916cdd21b4b/losefazaveful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gokewisu.pbworks.com/f/sandel_justice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1665a79f-e022-493c-b9b8-d98dac40e25f/91764341012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaxuwux.pbworks.com/f/c_programming_language_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobojifitin.pbworks.com/f/gaduvupuralevolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aeb3c72b-d7da-4076-a1ba-a707cf7d6ae1/foduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a994b2d6-80e1-4238-a178-5a51e2be7486/casio_wave_ceptor_watch_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijinatuzut.pbworks.com/f/16892760524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zowonixepor.pbworks.com/f/disney_plus_price_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f61b8080-8b50-4f0a-9ad3-a43482f3a405/83377588748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/028e5f09-7958-4b74-b254-0358d4f9310c/what_are_the_three_types_of_service_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuwofig.pbworks.com/f/eileen_chang_love_in_a_fallen_city_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92733f77-b699-4f41-9f86-6118bb033c38/how_to_restart_iphone_5_without_passcode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7367c5c7-5514-49a6-97c0-393122ac9ef0/gifasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schema.org/InStockIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0001192b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1192B 22780 bytes
SHA-256: f63bad3167b983be2a780352e6425abba3e4aeb8457e522c0930a90f55cf50a4
font_00_sfnt_off0000e097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE097 5556 bytes
SHA-256: d6449f214a23b0b800fe501b75a1ccc4d606f090c531df0ae25877630d1d9205
font_01_sfnt_off0000f35f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35F 10952 bytes
SHA-256: ffc68e72f02c888cc46492f3206266bf89c34a1c83213e25a6f6b55915d39ede