Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538eb4becf82148f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 14:10:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 4c71fc18a65ae38ef83f7e89fc86f591 SHA-1: 9d91061ff967dddb17a60566c352577251a5f35b SHA-256: 538eb4becf82148f77ded86cdc2a55bf839ac6d15c9acbc6a59cc195b54fae44
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=why+iphone+5s+battery+draining+fast PDF link annotation
    • http://palejep.22web.org/radish_production_guide_in_the_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxedujigizos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134735137/ada1bb2f247f357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superheatbelt.xyz/928339815362q0ms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devigejijakefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740662/fc9d1c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstsecu-paypal.com/how_to_reset_actiontec_router_passwordp8k5m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirafka.space/change_data_capture_in_informatica_powercenter3jvqk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hq-cleartv.info/sql_interview_questions_and_answers_for_experienced_c_corner07v3x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pochta-24.cc/aswb_practice_exam_reviewsk3zan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordwild-store.com/123798390006s7p8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca964146-fff5-4573-91cc-0477c8c41408/bulking_diet_meal_plan_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4078aba-79bc-4415-80fd-eda7dc708c64/amsco_ap_human_geography_answer_key_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terabamof.rf.gd/taylor_digital_food_scale_costco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokuzanu.epizy.com/excel_lookup_in_different_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbe81a06-7f69-4720-bd81-d6d03846f073/scag_patriot_52_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9eb0e21e-9b91-43a8-b1c5-acbc04fb3e2b/ley_general_de_titulos_de_credito_pagare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2743f98-324b-4966-8a1e-5942cadd6ab5/bissell_pet_pro_crosswave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80dab382-117c-4538-99f0-b455dd8a32df/jezukarumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6a2cb9e-bdf2-46d4-b91e-b51d146638fc/41167851711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/188ba681-fb90-40ab-b0a4-c8bee6d88b60/vonogepemulilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d10414c6-9a90-4da3-9481-5d2d7e6fbcf8/boney_m_christmas_music_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/579e0676-c0ec-4c81-9531-10d376536fa8/how_to_interpret_z_score.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF931 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 4498a67bc0cec834c08b66dd0de9a261eaad67f96f9df43d7809e2551c54de09
font_01_sfnt_off00010bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAE 11296 bytes
SHA-256: a2605481366f7cec91a42bcc02c9620cfe38b6af83e89c8ecd4c47993aea4cc6
font_02_sfnt_off00013220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13220 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176