Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 551fd43d1869840d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-05-12 11:10:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 46f8dd371e508d372d9535defc374536 SHA-1: b52556b2c6b8407d9f215062ab57eab39650448e SHA-256: 551fd43d1869840dd125d906404f1d740f859af0ad521c716d86cffe641edb68
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is malformed and contains a link farm, with one prominent URL related to resetting router passwords. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+reset+my+asus+router+without+a+password PDF link annotation
    • http://siwupojotuj.getenjoyment.net/8346062696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirusulixozome.scienceontheweb.net/zuvubomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagutoruramig.mywebcommunity.org/28303967545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexipufogavajid.getenjoyment.net/cancionero_catolico_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volulolusawaz.mygamesonline.org/hillsborough_county_school_2020_start_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nokivegodixisi.rf.gd/reality_is_broken_mcgonigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2aa89031-56ac-4de1-b828-aabe99840ec8.filesusr.com/ugd/cf14a4_3ad19079aa5e4412bf6a7a4dac2a2f20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f1e11ea9-a931-46ad-af30-391325c877dd.filesusr.com/ugd/423518_7ce50f9d34a24bc1a512674ad6b100ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f06b679-e14d-4525-8955-d56a7cf6f710.filesusr.com/ugd/79e5df_d375c95410a94577b9f07333538f8162.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kaloruligot.onlinewebshop.net/2014_taotao_110cc_atv_carburetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://997b2cc2-d96d-4654-b184-8a5d7ad473c0.filesusr.com/ugd/b8d08c_f86b71df0bdf44ab8c171e385bff2aa5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://033a7475-7ccb-45c1-8f1e-38fd320d48d0.filesusr.com/ugd/03a576_94deefb080a349ae8e0e9ced51724bdf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ce099f17-eb12-430b-a452-8d789b3ee5a8.filesusr.com/ugd/aef5b7_ab9d767645a54d6e8c3ddd9c2ff730fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xomawerowikevof.rf.gd/approach_to_pancytopenia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dukoveseleg.rf.gd/19033536809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://945b3f91-9c76-4178-be32-f0dab3cfe2c6.filesusr.com/ugd/8d5d69_4e059a9eefc947a7b43674850bacc19b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://50b44c92-959e-4a15-bf83-93d6b2b518d6.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed44c_6b5d2bb9551943d79e50bb9a5cbb0d02.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tikomiwewo.atwebpages.com/cloud_computing_certification_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajavisazoz.epizy.com/best_fashion_apps_2018_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piterar.epizy.com/vokorurexotewilosadafoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://011f98f8-b45f-4578-a2fd-466b530f7845.filesusr.com/ugd/74e905_7ccb2120f2714b919f96a94cb7d089fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://76f5a3e5-08d8-4581-9975-6c1b933a1845.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbd16_06e96a6420d64eaf83adf1ff3fc0b091.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3cd6846c-369c-4875-9c63-132df726a2dd.filesusr.com/ugd/7ab50f_14c3093c8e8c46fca96f22be74e95797.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://584dc5e1-4449-4bca-b3d9-d0e1fa08a972.filesusr.com/ugd/185caa_ea569bce08b34ece9fe066ff4cc3a164.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_off0000f0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E2 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 78f8a870a574714133074b473d50273bfa280f6adec2fe184d518b5a207db542
font_01_sfnt_off000102de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DE 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 3173718a64d1ecba1d6f4c5d45f9cd78dd668d61b1f72a48465003989697b880