Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7419056f2e63fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-03-04 10:18:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: c672179ba304de5147070ea2b7779991 SHA-1: deac7f2147f28a8f2272bf39e284d200ea99b4bd SHA-256: 4b7419056f2e63fbf310effbb50c07c8b02f4981761e4cf927bae386cb682580
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a phishing document or a dropper for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://midufefew.ru/aws?utm_term=what+are+tricky+interview+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://nopeludaseji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986928/wulevawagaj_masibefozap_navetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turogitirimutax.22web.org/1421192367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sutulozutujak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884412/1066783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vunukufe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640969/tigitetoto-gurasemoj-xagoputotu-zegimamoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raxosiwu.22web.org/what_should_a_graphic_design_portfolio_include.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zekenegelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390475/baxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zekedijudanafow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874467/d37ca8e00bc6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://judexesadizit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738912/tozumozuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamubojuteno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299935/zanelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juxibawazorar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997202/netofubufadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remumajisipiv.66ghz.com/rifojemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiwilofudux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606348/nulowudinarodubidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefobivuvevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380717/8950972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452852/normal_5ffe711c7f044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://nedudumitariz.epizy.com/79447655144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezoruxeg.epizy.com/juvagezimufumox.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10891 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 349c1608ae4823e844f44c8c8655070cc17ddb886dfe31a43140e9bd07f7dd54
font_01_sfnt_off00011a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A58 10800 bytes
SHA-256: c351b76a4b841fdb81ef8e2c430228eaeef1317abf8f12de75b0c93e78de3570
font_02_sfnt_off00013f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F09 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71