Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55ebe56e71872858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-03-10 16:18:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 6ce724b72a586c2ed06b4ec7bba12678 SHA-1: 3db7ee3ed6a292ed3b4abaa357350ee38c2ad0e0 SHA-256: 55ebe56e718728584f4064cdd5c2347aaaf3925035d85150df030ae58c9c761f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/award?keyword=magisterio+definicion+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojumisebu/djdp7iw/the_last_survivors_book_wiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vunelebu/1jiQjBD/80560144131.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/8fdd1b11-c15e-4021-9056-fad7284e3b83/how_to_access_sharp_tv_menu_without_remote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://46d16763-6c5f-4e19-aa2c-3f4071fcbec2.filesusr.com/ugd/26f730_fa390783390e45d29a174a8d673cb7cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirofopafu/38163746508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fonazuzixagizir/9_inch_android_tablet_with_keyboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://36622f5a-5a1b-41a5-aa98-965156e47ac2.filesusr.com/ugd/804ff6_533cba3efbc74bd3b6365381df7e242b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6172b4a3-cb86-414b-bba2-74adc8f4dbc9/72232189135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dcfbd4a-ef33-49dc-a04a-0aaf5307c30d.filesusr.com/ugd/b47706_ba1c52b45056428eb68ecb608cbb914f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7d15027-d3f9-409c-9125-a09872233dbb/pandas_select_rows_by_index_of_other_dataframe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_5907e3c65b524a6bb4412a518b84de09.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a33b07aa-d2d8-436b-b453-2f7a5af895e7/what_is_the_retribution_philosophy_of_punishment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d8128e4-aad9-40e5-8f9b-e69019bc71e0/duwirepitowozufagasiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotojipifuzitul/gatipiwexefafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a26e5b2-86c1-4973-9e1d-a07eb670d48d/6852455683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cb47f074-0476-4434-b381-5672a365cab8.filesusr.com/ugd/c46c8a_d7fb5bf335c740beaad92e6bc8022e5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bawalidamovidud/xanamipoj.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76E 5296 bytes
SHA-256: dcd6a2f8d30ef6eee9de373292c0d6d4001e67bf2d653a25922693d836ea4fe7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF995 12288 bytes
SHA-256: ade795ef4c0814162259b2e32826796ec10635fe1975850144955f3df1bf65a4
font_02_sfnt_off000120e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E3 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 6c7705833fc3965cf0662333d51f993da4a743600ebe3aa3d6a9f423e004df0b