Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 555b137a629f8bdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-05-21 04:56:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 36389b653b720494119c88444e0fddbe SHA-1: 17fd75db0ff0c63a06438df3dfaeee905b9c45d0 SHA-256: 555b137a629f8bdfcaaa308bb1f7833cff35f6582b713db41b033dee7b0de634
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. One of the primary external links identified is https://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=life+of+pi+quotes+page+numbers, and another prominent link is to vipinilanevam.weebly.com. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the phishing detection suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=life+of+pi+quotes+page+numbers PDF link annotation
    • https://vipinilanevam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873552/7776628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416665/normal_5fdde9cd6cec9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuviruwex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134766268/9e3bc43f4067bbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towodoruzaxigol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136050186/9607032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379744/normal_6001830aaf6e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofekivivefuron.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135339802/podiropiruvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenapejasuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749539/5793291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426415/normal_5ff46e6fbe1be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabavogafev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000006/natupod-mixaxemire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojafone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134891791/1776679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugumeb/disisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dewutexorob/haier_143l_chest_freezer_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21c70182-02ef-416f-b402-89ad34f39d76/will_there_be_a_dr_sleep_sequel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2fdc524-0bc3-488f-ace0-5f754c3fbaf3/linopexugazemusalanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuvukivaxiren/challan_form_aiou.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c77cad1a-941c-4ffa-bbaf-98f7df1f7710/27414212633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/421c865e-4cc1-4314-84fe-71d768c19f17/voleraxojemutejogowigera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovezodepugov/back_to_school_math_coloring_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56483bb8-b2ac-4604-b25e-1741d899e4d4/rumble_fish_movie_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voxipanovigepiv/zavabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e9b0ff4-9e1d-4af7-b9b5-7c60662cf650/starbucks_cold_foam_reusable_cup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5862714f-1233-41c4-84e2-57b0405c151d/how_to_clean_a_whitfield_quest_pellet_stove.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_off0001223e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223E 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb944f973db94d109f2d34f2a5b8304789f257bd4233b64ee9f10bf2836d7d4
font_01_sfnt_off00013489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13489 11480 bytes
SHA-256: f7f5a6325ce2cbe24524a1cb81f8dd68ddd9a00900e67eae463df7afa44e2518