Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 546130ec66d566f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-04-15 16:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e6382c56c6141995a476848e93778acd SHA-1: 112f3c7b9e043eeafc51ab55c0b95b63301f5356 SHA-256: 546130ec66d566f879c531b94cadef5a9527090b8e69fc7a116cece5b30b4f2f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded URLs that redirect to malicious domains, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a Hoover steamvac manual. The presence of multiple unknown URLs and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=hoover+steamvac+deep+cleaner+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://sagiberufof.22web.org/28370254851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaxuzafepuwe.iblogger.org/naponule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ranetixeba/jaujcAT/xegesexirusawakawekare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/birofinud/ahbeja4/bc_lions_running_backs_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-soft-team.com/summer_escapes_10ft_metal_frame_pool_instructions9yle7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covid-19online.site/worry_tree_worksheetwzevt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rovifatira/aPngf8o/16523731079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/PibLjcP/clothes_worksheets_clipart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidver.com/3rd_grade_reading_comprehension_packetrm336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kefets.xyz/15690922668vco0r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/powurejur/cjcceRr/ffxiv_character_profile_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daliadiago.com/what_is_the_income_limit_to_receive_medicaid_in_michiganaktgv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://politach.com/326253178443a0tk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkingtest.xyz/81629597576oddkl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c852480-a994-43e2-b797-176740958da6/zeposirodewalajumebulidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47c7e852-a347-40ab-b6c8-26a9ecb50a1c/sex_and_the_city_characters_personality_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fcd4ea3-4c7f-47ec-bb56-9f90c726bf3d/fedex_drop_off_new_london_wi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobubiro.epizy.com/tugalogubagepinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0628312-0ae8-41fb-afae-55b02f68d4e3/ge_universal_remote_codes_for_magnavox_dvd_player.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/865af2fe-1e9a-4732-8697-89b65ac13fee/73672953064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d40718d5-4746-49fa-bf55-670a27df1cd2/is_there_a_season_2_of_epix_war_of_the_worlds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cfc5ec00-3437-4ae4-86df-fb83e2d5b9c6/17240682897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugapekazudi.epizy.com/wewijugowemagenabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0952a7c2-2517-469a-868a-374cb6593a50/95377538037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9836c125-c6a7-453e-8821-9230e5fb91da/worurowezevuxilumoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc273fae-aec3-4916-a25d-2b38cc3dbcef/craftsman_circular_saw_repair_parts.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_off0000d0fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0FB 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 2ecb9beda76081a357520a0790649c598f928f300d6a7cdbb7542e77faa2bd6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BB 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 646e347bb05578e242d425c886ac25d7059da721bf8db2dd10207502190576ce