Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5436b37c35f48575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-05 17:58:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 7a6f553e8e7b29a50ce2109c5d9848da SHA-1: 476295414852bfd260693b433c6c02dc861278d0 SHA-256: 5436b37c35f48575d7e78134de07afdf0494a52f155374127afd9ce489befd68
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Kaimuki library holiday hours'. The presence of multiple suspicious and disposable domains, coupled with ML and ClamAV detections, strongly indicates a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=kaimuki+library+holiday+hours PDF link annotation
    • http://metalllift.ru/nixazasomikujamg6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arevakar-travel.com/kwikset_smartcode_909_programming_and_troubleshooting_guideqflz7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexasojurez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381046/f4beb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xozipirun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324749/1852483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioit.space/wuduroxesivoletuketusizrfo00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loginwithfb.site/letra_de_alabanza_el_poder_del_cristiano_esta_en_la_oracion4vphi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juilopkiretlo.ru/fukulubozojemawinoxejuxfwbcp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodukitomot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407143/6667d3f0618811a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayazshabutdinov.club/argumentative_essay_ideas_middle_schoold7aeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leziwazedo.mypressonline.com/technical_analysis_of_stock_trends_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lazujifoxupa.getenjoyment.net/zmodo_camera_login.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.librarieshawaii.org/branch/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wugujub.onlinewebshop.net/nipebene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5f8b0e40-2141-4341-98ab-6145db4b8156.filesusr.com/ugd/2072cd_a3a3670915da4f04902d887db0e08d46.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9eaa565e-fb97-40b4-b096-d6760803f699.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_e1dc1a58cf3045769ed9a481b4cbeb6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://64f1e6a9-4530-4009-9f9b-67b91dd69f79.filesusr.com/ugd/76b6de_d9be677f03e64638b83b7ec8934de423.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://63c5840e-267c-49ed-94d3-fc9f9d8b9c0b.filesusr.com/ugd/8c5bc8_1a5a0d6df21f4cdaacfe32c2005c995b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dd7ee03d-3646-4e01-a1e1-4c0a7e2c9e57.filesusr.com/ugd/d7ba0f_995165dc5b5f45abb37653be705b667d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://737bf953-b780-43bc-8af0-312ed5328a40.filesusr.com/ugd/017c44_d7e0f34148044c519f010661c2eb9d7b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b23183eb-b2e5-455e-bc25-91fac1efd10f.filesusr.com/ugd/cc14e4_998d8f0408bf43169e065aaee207d884.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d89a15f7-21b5-45f0-b9b4-bc5b7be68842.filesusr.com/ugd/18e821_8445d45641e149b195a1ac4d4839e9c5.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_off0000f96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96F 5340 bytes
SHA-256: fba3e0154fd762a458c9a2549cb0f4d50f8de2c95daec13fde218741a0e0d815
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6C 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 7569243cefad6453eefab6f8d42e05b200b5b6cbf59e62efa73900bf86c711e0