Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54ac678c3a71b132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-03-31 04:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: eec498a7af0c43fe081876bc107914cd SHA-1: 50d33961b78fc6b52d478e0101c2524d490822db SHA-256: 54ac678c3a71b1321a7bd49d8e3502ff33fd956d4e5468f761ac51389ba0f87c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to disposable hosting and generated SEO content. The primary URL, 'https://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=year+5+spelling+words+pdf', suggests a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely for phishing or traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=year+5+spelling+words+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vewewiganivobob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852084/pudukubixepox-fiwebepad-bubozilapevi-luwagabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobanuvoba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637247/1851421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasidubeni.iblogger.org/amsterdam_tourist_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimofunoduw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525219/697a4fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fesinukovib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134715349/vikixibonodupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suzoniku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134456843/lulesuzavumadigofere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gajedimigifupet.epizy.com/2018_chevy_cruze_diesel_manual_transmission.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab737b70-891a-4a1f-8db9-ee548211cb31.filesusr.com/ugd/ce14f3_b0f7acc8ab4245969d54126ecd24622d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sulasatevirexo/bole_chudiyan_song_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bea00909-aa88-4d38-ac88-e56db460b486.filesusr.com/ugd/923104_4fd012503a964595bccccfadab617688.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kitakilesa/49586871641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipuxogililego.epizy.com/notice_letter_template_house.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8488b7ac-84bc-45ae-88ed-26841205fc59.filesusr.com/ugd/7cda3c_749b31f86b4c466a9df3c9dee0d2ca4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75a697d3-84f0-44cf-bab9-f05e37020c50.filesusr.com/ugd/7c3584_d46da1c3e8974c39a13785f45779a5ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vikaxala.epizy.com/japanese_apron_sewing_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d5b7940-f3de-45f0-8705-4c43761232c3/73535413647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d7301f0f-9730-4f6e-9d95-601e203cb770.filesusr.com/ugd/253413_88cda6f3a84f4f9f9a7724f47e589f80.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6865277c-c728-4625-b591-b32d9ea125ce/pitimigejebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jupevuxirapi/basketball_point_guard_gym_workout.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/moduxanakuri/ffxiv_leveling_guide_30-_40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b5b764bc-4fc6-48d7-9a4b-423a4d05f225.filesusr.com/ugd/3f2390_9618a7a953e34d97bd0e6a3d95b27589.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_off0000d15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15E 5388 bytes
SHA-256: b15826865ffede30d37e93e960fa6d9371e7e58d2e6525552d0a4fe7797537e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D6 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 250bbd3adb4a54059842443ab6d7893ecabc801e6e9d99eebfaad4d2d26168b5