Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e2f5c98c71177b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-21 02:33:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9bd993762c0333649da6b967feb12202 SHA-1: 23da242fd5b442d4962c2ed902c9caaf3194a2dc SHA-256: 4e2f5c98c71177b68168a940b320766388a26a657a431f9d6ca421391df9c0f0
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, many pointing to disposable domains or redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as phishing or a trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs suggest it's used to facilitate initial access, likely via spearphishing attachments, leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=julius+caesar+by+shakespeare+movie PDF link annotation
    • http://tikovg.xyz/226853371317h6tc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vefavufarexuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315694/e20404894cadc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrinklestiltskin.com/16_gauge_perforated_stainless_steel_sheetiri9o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bijininabex/qjenbT0/can_you_make_android_apps_with_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buxifuludo/ibkCgg8/nokekopeburudamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixikevepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408169/fuborazofisabaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-devletturkiyeaidatsistemimgovtr.com/ropigolofajuxarinxvtvj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandiego-podcasts.com/why_does_my_water_cooler_leakcjsfs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocketdocs.us/fokoxitilikixeledat3pzm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mejonozawus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016798/5733593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gibebisotasemig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380024/dozezifaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusherx.studio/lupubemidumagigdu3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubka.space/lagu_bunga_citra_lestari_terbaik6vpxa.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/41520280-a46f-482d-8ed0-b214a3a636d2/how_to_create_interactive_map_dashboard_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce72d0c0-564a-41bc-80df-3c3ec12006af/wuwikaverelifujakutuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fidefofudi/jaxazoxekisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1fdf6f9-e3b8-445c-a342-073274926c77/skyrim_load_order_tool.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tikoweravisixu/2008_mercury_25_hp_4_stroke_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50f11843-76fe-4d7f-9b58-70dbf4152997/ribefatifiwivobufinixi.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_off0000ef70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF70 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 52d2fb462f18a587be6f5b118242c333de9d34ac8c5d712b2a5ea899f59e0906
font_01_sfnt_off0001021d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021D 10680 bytes
SHA-256: df112b342823c62400523aed4264135860041589c8c2b7c89fb66856af2988de