Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5064ffef3dc25db5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-03-31 02:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 7b12cd9f3035a7885444032e2fdaca21 SHA-1: 56bccd07fa947e88a839fe70009937aeaca1f8cd SHA-256: 5064ffef3dc25db55e2084f8aa20a9b1c69c4fb28168e2d342c9ff3f4a5348db
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links to other PDF documents hosted on various disposable domains, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. This behavior is characteristic of SEO manipulation or a distribution network for malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution, hence the T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) and T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution) techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=learning+easylanguage+strategies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://viduxetejogat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600114/vukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamuxiwami.getenjoyment.net/english_spanish_pocket_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terugate.mypressonline.com/tabla_puntaje_psu_2021_ciencias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teguvazotumeli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041540/livajisomefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilejote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134629871/ae3d629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setopin.mypressonline.com/adobe_full_version_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakogupomuniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610568/45af21406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456116/normal_5fe06dbca2f82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xubanapirobula.mypressonline.com/10286860723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://julavatevimire.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134669339/e0b6c696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pozimifekof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134674510/7995603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407983/normal_6025c1170d3ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418968/normal_6016edd36d356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakekizedexu.getenjoyment.net/lewis_acid_and_base_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoxosedefoxadu.mygamesonline.org/31748532293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimofunoduw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525219/9415006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruvujagefeko.mygamesonline.org/98049769524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadinitalu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744808/2547738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vopugixeroramox.medianewsonline.com/sentry_1250_safe_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495976/normal_604495b6955dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wororezijetixa.atwebpages.com/46575937768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ralirajuz.atwebpages.com/mito_definicion_para_nios.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_off00011671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11671 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0ba1dd176c22a4907fc7d0ad767c7cfa1b392ba373e7f892fc7aa253a55133
font_01_sfnt_off0001286c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286C 11048 bytes
SHA-256: b4bc3cdb77489c20a0a19f6645296d7d0a7925aabb8b5b8e89223f634c900604