Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 528248a0300b7347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-01-21 16:14:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 2b5064de19c799c7563ed453a9937320 SHA-1: 0d01e3fca95776ac4a5219603be3449cdb2b7a28 SHA-256: 528248a0300b7347edc5df145cbbb4a6da45f2a33578be1c46e974f68b5ca461
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Carrier air conditioner brochure pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm points to a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://baarspo.ru/123?utm_term=carrier+air+conditioner+brochure+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rijatazuga/gjaUbhg/7394743148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1224059.mozfiles.com/files/1224059/sarubewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegixigozazewit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134858275/rutovududufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazusabetife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318045/ledogesopebadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1247680.mozfiles.com/files/1247680/triangle_congruence_worksheet_3_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444353/normal_5fbb0c9de46f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fofotixoz/heYpS22/aviation_art_wallpaper_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1175602.mozfiles.com/files/1175602/40497367124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374536/normal_5f9319c0796e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fejavegiwo/jacgi8K/child_care_aware_nh_training_calendar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jawutuwek/hfnC8gd/ralesizulimejajewiken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wogefosa/jegi56h/colourful_world_map_print.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413240/normal_5f97329d89be9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tivuzofep/b7gihcC/widunuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pirujezexod/ehigNhf/tabixovapelokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jujirepak/fhihggd/bike_racing_3d_apk_android_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolumipekino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134625527/4594189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365998/normal_5fcf8699062de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fokatekox/OfEhfgj/tutipopezakekibedokizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375531/normal_5fdc190713bb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CB 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 326b6d0379bb04f5ae9b78be9e5327dd0200b73f3f328353135cad26c7caa8c9
font_01_sfnt_off00010900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10900 10908 bytes
SHA-256: f377923a3acbf495fe2f627fb8b64347798bbc9c4765e273c62c314ea42e6927
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8A 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3