Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5265cb1ca5a6c27c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-03-25 05:48:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: e99525e673e283d9e05fbb2a4b20dce4 SHA-1: 5f24940745f74dc95d684a29981e20f58515ec60 SHA-256: 5265cb1ca5a6c27ca25a900f1dd11ff304ca2b8093b551e1ebd4c196710b1a66
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the 'password-protected archive' heuristic indicate an attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=wifi+file+transfer+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/matijamaj/uGrgeji/52381620678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tojebaru/Gihjcjf/download_ringtone_sms_oppo_fun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dijowasedop/oVWWqgi/goodreads_sign_in_with_facebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/susorajin/xifigge/life_size_rapunzel_doll_canadian_tire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vofonowul/geghCKw/hokey_definition_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/reriwoduriju/jcAgijf/different_fonts_for_tattoos_cursive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gufemazibafi/jchjMgi/mozibovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zelowomuguzak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379017/2309821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruzuxopamekegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748505/3653635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevolevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606362/junaxeduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupabarudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/popeseridesaf_vironanisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vumatoxikom/hYfTSJQ/king_of_fighter_kung_fu_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ec75ba9f-29a7-4b73-bb51-4c951d20089f.filesusr.com/ugd/17cde0_f6fde1bc67304e34be42a4f7b2f352c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d0275d90-c5b4-4c72-b581-d0e2b62fc6dd.filesusr.com/ugd/ee54da_5859e009f61847fea310fc27ceaa3916.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vebogotexaf/3dmark_2017_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4a0f17ac-6ce6-4c05-9546-25c48d39d9f7.filesusr.com/ugd/cd79e3_667ad33e4688418185ea6e46f926270a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e590c0d9-b694-44fb-9862-47327b30d8b0.filesusr.com/ugd/89363e_c0ace0f3f03246848eba562e54d8acf8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://359ea524-acbf-40a7-8d58-ee96a8f10bc8.filesusr.com/ugd/ca2e76_42a5cd6257004adeb5ae7b722265d28a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ziwuvijevo/36178251681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3e80c8bf-0031-4ca1-bfa9-4484641fefed.filesusr.com/ugd/08103e_5f4dbe84110d4ab5965286b8f87cac35.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6c8ebe11-725c-420b-823a-68bc39d02ad2.filesusr.com/ugd/3e87bf_62c9206a33d44cb5912cd646d903477a.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_off0000e5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D7 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 1a075f09cccf6f9313b91592822cf130851fb2c31d40b6fce6b7cc8326309694
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E0 10952 bytes
SHA-256: fff716fb04f5813ea7ee8eae66e4daa92a2b90f37fa04ce1805aecb9ff813f87