Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 533897bf078876fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-04-05 13:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 19cb6561cc9d6679d472ae800be4e79f SHA-1: 54e30f2eacdd3a510c11c0c4289c3eeaf51842b8 SHA-256: 533897bf078876fcff6d9f229420155e7e67d9d87a65ae7d6f25e37ad7ef1dc4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting services. The primary function seems to be redirecting users to a large number of other PDF documents, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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/strik?utm_term=fighter+fighting+styles+5e+unearthed+arcana PDF link annotation
    • https://waxovidimised.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446407/gusaponupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eglo.club/wigumijonixejefered5ux2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisawotaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135993845/pakirolivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fosuwelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695698/5676244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lebudikex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135310552/4d2a66a54589ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamupoto/jQTvQ1c/42233492204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fefajuvojamunuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134750085/26380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honbiz.pro/hm_new_size_guide_uksj79m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-favshopc.online/what_was_the_first_estate7xli7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexewowoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873923/7b6787c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gumopaxegekugod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018731/4040986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokizafot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347773/5473206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxoganonigowup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408343/sazowetuxome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunogijejuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813547/68cd8d5475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rotuzuwibi/aHjhuIZ/music_theory_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulotetaputu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740707/d9970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimilosebot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096588/pepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ribafesupuro/idK4hgK/43398385033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuzifilagowiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134698760/xepesarigofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jobubexivex/ehgDicG/fudefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austritkfa.com/introduction_to_operations_research_hillier_and_liebermann7yj7.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/woxojuxafopuv/recruiting_process_flow_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolituzoji/samsung_phone_call_keeps_stopping.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vifusupegiza/59909886650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bojafazes/bovewutusajuna.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_off0000e94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94B 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 7154f0eeeb650a708651377a875b66840e1a9eaea582f53dac29618e7e2a3170
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF0 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 2f384237742479e688272a6d838394a475e57debd31d05d775361e0c5aca0b02