Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 572705efbc294a6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-03-06 13:42:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c53bc095140f7667df9a7b499a0f4aae SHA-1: ae8d7512e7ce91cc2479498648f026b58154067c SHA-256: 572705efbc294a6bb7f5308cef8b9c3b6b9604396c9e3c17be22b245b828180f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0', and ML classification strongly suggests maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be the distribution of a large number of links, potentially to manipulate search engine results or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content.

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=les+miserables+2012+gavroche+song+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://gejokakop.mygamesonline.org/42535558692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lurofigugibax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134686006/zagujuveraled-kizawikefatevov-ketikilevug-zizofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dexediwiboze/QlTGheY/word_create_cross_reference_table.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gusiloxi/Egjiihd/noxemiboponeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wekaradukuve/e6ijjec/42108107114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuvuvidova/MjcuheM/find_objects_game_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gufulixofoma/bieUhfw/ant_plugins_service_samsung.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganuniwiku/gginhi2/dune_battle_for_arrakis_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxudirikebipur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164004/vixofunexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xirejefeju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723985/jesase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pasifowon.atwebpages.com/89834746833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujupubemerij.epizy.com/94507598501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d508182-3907-422c-8f17-44e4b75d962b/3804608451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabogefegu.epizy.com/instagram_stories_mrs_meldrum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tereraje.rf.gd/96965118470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b354c89a-dc70-458f-a6aa-8e09bb067e0f/what_is_leavening_in_baking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eaed0369-00d3-43e7-a1d2-38523b9a0254/how_to_replace_motorola_g6_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaxilitexu.onlinewebshop.net/wubodidolefanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5c31e2c-1e61-4192-bf7e-8c5c52176fd5/57616771386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b211b6f5-cf16-4d2b-99b4-1db05c8ee35a/claire_breakfast_club_character_analysis.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_off0000e941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE941 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 95e3ccaa23b3f12c2b25381d4321bd0284741e65abb8dd00ded8ddcffbc3b197
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDA 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 8944b284d1073e6c7402911a8c1b48e532233fb4037ea3b15b5d226b4f29d92d