Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f87a537c0940938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-01-10 19:15:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a0c0d12703132b76b7cff11b7a513c00 SHA-1: d0de501b1813f50f2afb337bb41a48716f7ff78e SHA-256: 4f87a537c09409386e8fd0933faeab29b5306ce98489e8bb654a31f0a528f514
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, including one that appears to be a lure for an "apk" download. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute various payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=beauty+selfie+camera+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://vajugape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767319/4538495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176236.mozfiles.com/files/1176236/lusilabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tijinujul/ieiaihw/67085027514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1172403.mozfiles.com/files/1172403/47931700606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nokesopupikes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767934/2157073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodotabamusunew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134402052/b8475a6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birirewenojitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813362/nopovuwenesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168096.mozfiles.com/files/1168096/3276905127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sefubokadizafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880044/vogirulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoraxabaxid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682630/goxodoxogeguboz_zofores_zenikafozovi_bisuxomularoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defujo/mutomabapexaponukidiboki.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9E 3012 bytes
SHA-256: 9b19455cff369cd09d1b1298043574fe83628c1eade402d2f4b92743e22c8ce8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE762 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd9dd4bdf03ce8dc680a48f2db37e1f96a3d8292f650a48bac7e8c329c32c82
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A9 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 68fa9281e8712f58aac6d4c0e14a7e05386a116ee341bb6ba424204549c28a99
font_03_sfnt_off00011e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4C 17060 bytes
SHA-256: aa32521090fad298f0921979489b55232b06232c1a679d37e7f1cb8848f41d66