Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ab70c03a63c161d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-02-27 05:35:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d03687cf3b7958f2f0c2b1db3fa5c014 SHA-1: b0485e7422020fd4973f933e7a042eb6f9116e54 SHA-256: 4ab70c03a63c161df1efb6eaa28175d1b3992e07e08a45bb8486e393263b9b3f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links pointing to disposable domains and Weebly-hosted PDFs, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs and the heuristic firings for PDF link farms point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://resalured.ru/strik?utm_term=best+card+trick+books+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • http://worabipupe.mypressonline.com/pemokagalebulagezopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totidulabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606487/8130438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguxenejizowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134899735/1715699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covid-19online.site/zazarujakufikobadasonudu5dz4i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://javemutamutog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134638327/5059043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dupafubakatato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961249/9466988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italia-doc.space/ipega_controller_for_ioszh2rf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mivewuwadomabat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606259/4153e6142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laximazerafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235816/3286185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomulopegodetom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384256/6532786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discount50.pro/connected_investors_reviews_2020s7jbk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujumumokujot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134613036/7408854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edapog.online/bewoggcymn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebideronapiza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483209/3269e8fc95e255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xepovilebifupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136086158/gusiv-zatomoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zotikukubufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134773644/f11dc9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dakafatuvuguviz.atwebpages.com/bipilekad.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_off00010b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9D 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 5dfc299510d5ecb1ec615c567ccbe03a655d6425ae083a2cadeba19774fdcaff
font_01_sfnt_off00011e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E18 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 82348bf6e23d150991d728e7305a5e3a8c3accb8021e6573857063df3f5fde16