Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575a97f3c6100740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-04-02 01:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 6d412559c952ba877efa9eecfb1ddc72 SHA-1: c36c1654df5bf2c887d5de65c03ec3c40339bfa9 SHA-256: 575a97f3c6100740492566b03c5b5a84dc1e34c6cfe5eac5d9293ab7e4eeae1d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://ruvenebigolusep.mywebcommunity.org/kazawazomapudesigajip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://duxinivodozular.mywebcommunity.org/sea_of_monsters_book_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xajavawinereko.mywebcommunity.org/35623875587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrighthelpbusiness.net/lefamidapopu0vmsr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tibagisuminove.sportsontheweb.net/job_interview_questions_and_answers_for_fresh_graduates_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusekimutoxi.sportsontheweb.net/air_fryer_recipes_for_beginners_pork_chops.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-italy.space/bhaijaan_elo_re_full_movie_720pav0lb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/_7yJ53orglQ/wb?keyword=which%20of%20the%20following%20statements%20is%20correct%20regarding%20the%20components%20of%20the%20master%20budgetPDF link annotation
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b8eea18-7a9e-4a34-b39f-d54d71d7f0e1/how_will_you_measure_your_life_book_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b27f6c6-8419-40b9-80e5-ea0a014f5bcd/71860696893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ebc45752-99aa-4de9-a29d-ff1ba2bd1f88/how_to_replace_bruno_stairlift_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lusajafimaneru.myartsonline.com/risk_juego_de_tronos_instrucciones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dae57379-2785-4108-a223-4562ecbfc22e.filesusr.com/ugd/87ad98_b45f6f0e725f4418ae46e3276039ad12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8071fb1-33dc-4bb9-9fe9-292e0ca0d861.filesusr.com/ugd/253000_7c8b623a6866418891700dfad252accd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49bfafb4-f4f9-4926-94b5-cb3d79520960/stan_getz__joo_gilberto_the_girl_from_ipanema_letra_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukokovevaz.atwebpages.com/atoms_and_molecules_class_9_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa4de0c4-a7fb-47f6-97fe-5721705e71c1.filesusr.com/ugd/824332_8cb6343bedfa4e6f8e6d7b9db728e287.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b3500e9-40b4-440a-9ada-171ed8bcf4c9.filesusr.com/ugd/7820d0_46791ec81318485a9133334174421df5.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_off0001394d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1394D 5812 bytes
SHA-256: c6ccf4d02e96dafa65c9a3886303ba636eb5b9262805bbc8c822cb14238a1131
font_01_sfnt_off00014d0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D0B 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 4625b2b16e2ca218d5d7d01c7ea6e930d3d15dcb150c1162c5b6c4f79b476b34