Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a1a5194e881f89b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-04-05 04:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 89a90ae7c550121a1883a4a124f3485a SHA-1: 44c0057ec5a5c6498988aad4c20d7b2ab8da41f6 SHA-256: 5a1a5194e881f89bb076c8e5914c039d56dde1ecefe80637a6d70c7d25c85258
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs, with one prominent example being https://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=evenflo+tribute+lx+convertible+car+seat+installation+instructions. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=evenflo+tribute+lx+convertible+car+seat+installation+instructions PDF link annotation
    • http://vutunema.mypressonline.com/25394624389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414851/normal_600fca77dff7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454670/normal_5fed98c916e62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butapakenora.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871909/xamarulurila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474218/normal_60151754a914a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411932/normal_5ff79ba212c3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wevotimojek.22web.org/39221034274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilijinaxobizag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356504/komurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanebaxexob.getenjoyment.net/vemobosenovajefenejowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370097/normal_5fce86b18bdfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuwiratuzitezep.22web.org/scott_pilgrim_vs_the_world_comic_book_online.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/d21d1491-8482-4364-b693-92fcf2f5a833/fundamentals_of_fluid_mechanics_munson_videos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6cec0e4e-732d-41a2-8822-003bfc1b813c/politics_for_dummies_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pugapugene.rf.gd/historia_infantil_sobre_o_meio_ambiente.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a75e18c-3b99-4b75-ad2b-726d9eaee28e/ill_be_alright_without_you_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc7e1ff1-0113-4d77-b325-d4385b8835ec/72692166038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11c0911f-eea3-4a90-928e-da7e8400bf30/hp_officejet_pro_8600_printing_issues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/258b83ba-fb90-4f35-98bc-c38ff7cc05f9/what_type_of_person_does_mollie_represent_in_animal_farm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b203729-9425-4259-b5c7-6e77dda0641f/what_does_the_house_in_the_house_of_usher_symbolize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b7c413a8-5971-4fb1-8adf-58f69a03ad4d/piano_sheet_music_for_popular_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dewelimu.epizy.com/maplestory_v62_warrior_training_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a025e221-fc0e-4247-a68f-414ec0f12e5a/daxafevumixo.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_off0000f5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BE 5100 bytes
SHA-256: d83a3bdd75eef2f62215f9c64fcf4f61640f8aa3b04b95a06153cea00cb20af0
font_01_sfnt_off00010734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10734 10712 bytes
SHA-256: ea3a3dd4bd59968e5d67c61bc9311d0c9d7722f0b32ec0e58ba4da4872ba800e