Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5155d832f362a023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-03-17 19:56:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: a3779a7dbb6ff535d730d561fce24bdb SHA-1: 1ecfbb88627a1122f2092e89763eca0e0f2d08ca SHA-256: 5155d832f362a023f56bd926a38306e6662cd7e3f1d294dbffa14dccb668022f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest 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://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=red+raspberry+tea+for+weight+loss PDF link annotation
    • http://jadebey-x.com/xedujobasaxugilabedejawuv7ky6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanizimugigil.getenjoyment.net/antimicrobial_activity_of_cinnamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstmail.space/xatujasubulixamjmmnq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferategaj.scienceontheweb.net/hp_officejet_pro_6835_printing_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulukegoror.getenjoyment.net/what_is_the_oldest_history_in_the_world.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevagawos.getenjoyment.net/foxasefano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojoliziriba.22web.org/bugs_bunny_king_meme_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surozofawowidom.scienceontheweb.net/chemistry_of_high_energy_materials_klapotke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bogadigoxizalux.epizy.com/how_to_find_quadratic_line_of_best_fit_on_desmos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://73af689e-4c80-4f62-99d3-7a886641ad81.filesusr.com/ugd/3b5dd9_49dadc68e7a04d22b0f958c0a6ffd12c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4bf641bf-117a-4913-931f-55e49063997f.filesusr.com/ugd/5befcb_b5d6ca620e4f49deb538560d05c071a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69b3109a-7cce-4514-9193-d2106d9976ab.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2969_9e5f82a204c94b3e88867ddabc6264e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abdc0881-32c6-4038-ab2f-7b064cd4ee7e/what_are_the_iliad_and_the_odyssey_about.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ea3657d-1c4c-40dd-8491-58aeeb8dc933.filesusr.com/ugd/18a85a_183fd8f7412a4b4bb9f81fd790dd50cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f7e05ffc-afae-4d19-be15-7e9c659e5e5f.filesusr.com/ugd/72f62b_cf46884a660141bfa607bc123d6ee15b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://32cf4326-ba62-484c-a3ca-05d02c2dd2e5.filesusr.com/ugd/0b46e6_22a6bae8257a463f9ec23d2c4fcddee9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b564fea6-732e-489f-a029-a72dc6590de2.filesusr.com/ugd/6a4619_6dc2c4a1527f4e76ac1d54d20fa964de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a23b420e-24d6-4a0a-a1bc-4b3fee034a2e/84510603950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/719d80de-bea0-4f46-b4b9-51bac4c47a15/cat_in_the_hat_costume_diy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3f740848-0e57-4b51-8596-564812021bec.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe17c_cef625aebf124c38b00dd5e539319e92.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61B 5644 bytes
SHA-256: e4ca8ee10e92e34533181e477461ab537747c97a0b374d013e0ea9ae833b4d11
font_01_sfnt_off0001095e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095E 10548 bytes
SHA-256: e19dd7044038d617f5bbf08c4d1071729be9bfa8421b04be430c82f7e3a3404a