Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 594c582437a9ffcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-03-10 09:40:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3792002229b3f027a7fbb5d4698ffa89 SHA-1: d57aeeb89a292233cdc3cf78fd820e60547fdebe SHA-256: 594c582437a9ffcc512fe881a9516bee0d0c5eff258d53ffc7a587b58a232ff1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to SEO redirectors and link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' strongly suggest this intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The primary IOC is the redirector URL used to lure victims.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://lozipotod.ru/wix?keyword=hri+scheme+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://lidobovinibun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861857/pimetizokazovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortomsk.ru/adjective_prepositional_phrase_worksheetcc64y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unosital.space/zopuwuduvijomowawowagitwrps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubamugikogili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134508843/8534465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betmoy54.com/taco_bell_frito_burrito_caloriesges0v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dududuw.mypressonline.com/best_websites_for_online_arbitrage_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xariketixagat.mypressonline.com/88199533386.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/fuwuzerijofa/maximum_ride_female_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://57933e30-1e86-4cbe-ad2b-777cb72f9932.filesusr.com/ugd/235f1a_9dc810294aa74ed19072712d00cf3684.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://abaaaae4-9231-44fc-b12c-ad55ebcc68e7.filesusr.com/ugd/2ca09c_dd3618b1e006484e846f9111bf7fa41c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zunewidimem/card_carrier_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2a42e17-902d-41d4-9bc6-ff0dc2292227/77891157450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5862e4ea-63a6-4c92-af93-e06d02d1a664.filesusr.com/ugd/eaa371_183246ed2635477180c194549b1b1497.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifesu/19510835698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0aca8ac8-d9cf-4b14-915b-603b193b5020/gofiduradeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f0e038e-6cce-44f9-9596-95821daf01ea/48803860142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a08dc318-be66-4fb3-bdd6-db8066131f47/dirty_christmas_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6aebe975-e109-4dfb-8926-c3f254f76b5f/speed_queen_washing_machine_error_66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/firigugixujotov/arkit_android_alternative.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_off0000e665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE665 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 901b4b572b6e7fadde840123984e28d513710594a7d758d4d4f779e76722f263
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75B 10472 bytes
SHA-256: cb324695d0b514b7cf5e00590ed2e8fc513cd9d22ceb9d41b41125c485b36232