Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 549a7ec68df0fee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-03-14 07:45:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d4e34be2457843bb5ac307b980921277 SHA-1: caf982657ae1a066120442c4e515a37967a17e4c SHA-256: 549a7ec68df0fee51057b633aa6ea19440a5b582020bc1ca48059c1c612f4a82
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing or malicious document, including a link farm and a redirector to an SEO phishing site. The embedded URL and the document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggest an attempt to trick the user into visiting external links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://xajibur.ru/wix?keyword=apologies+for+the+short+time+notice PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417045/normal_5fcb4c7a9682a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374366/normal_602d94827a5b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407807/normal_5fdc927478b5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383912/normal_6006efc730b13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366620/normal_5ff6082bb09c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485572/normal_60293a25afaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379231/normal_604a2aa8c2081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366304/normal_5ff1342fe49ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a21f0d7d-5fe0-4a99-a381-3b18266e0880.filesusr.com/ugd/6c313a_3f97a3f75a3947caaeb21988d82399b2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pomaxa/18750180496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab25a8b3-4d80-4d4b-93a1-c1347014fa7c.filesusr.com/ugd/8d0191_be161b761f1c47e1b5809b070157c5dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7b9449e5-51e9-4a7e-81f5-8587c42320f9.filesusr.com/ugd/571bad_861f9f9b7a774eb4a0fd9b367ff01484.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufoxorog/gevobarunituzapejogirurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kukazowox/62002482264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://56a79910-2d97-40e4-a1df-bca3b17021d7.filesusr.com/ugd/2721fc_7931ae1006b9461ca8ed6719f17630aa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wesezuzuvalirik/vusamaxugexukorimitefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wipotegadodorek/crossword_answer_for_distinguished_or_famous.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_off0000d2c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C6 5208 bytes
SHA-256: b3827a5cc95af8b2652f7af84b7fb847eb09df720b497c7ebc100a817242c47e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 6cbb73859b21937a7bb7bc837653d3408c664d97944efa6d5b1d7f25bedec287