Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b42f03d68f3cff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-04-03 21:56:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 443091691b69290e489e01bd10b6d5cf SHA-1: 98693d3b355088c2264670cfec82c58549775adf SHA-256: 5b42f03d68f3cff0c167a39e3bc7dc58d274451505b6cad94991e4fe2134a7b4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, with a significant portion of these domains flagged as disposable. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=shadowing+n3+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nexipufogavajid.getenjoyment.net/business_administration_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vugovarekuluf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607096/jumoxiv-jiborike-jozujuvimokipeg-pixarukikesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movediwifed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695881/d7c6622e7515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dumigegin.medianewsonline.com/batifikoparuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuvalasit.mypressonline.com/rawexotusilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajuliwelofiti.medianewsonline.com/62183777780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xagekofa.iblogger.org/the_irregular_at_magic_high_school_light_novel_volume_16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemofesane.medianewsonline.com/33741327014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamefegali.mywebcommunity.org/4621278779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozaxebefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584315/gebonupulebizuvaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujitexoxobag.mypressonline.com/lightning_arrester_seminar_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://18aefb47-0221-41c7-ace0-4f78eb33e730.filesusr.com/ugd/bca722_ddd047e434ea420da60d29a00e182657.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jurorinidup.rf.gd/77155138030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1058d175-53f8-4d86-9201-ae9c1fc74009.filesusr.com/ugd/62a633_9f9ecd201b9d434fb520c8e7196017b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jorasixu.myartsonline.com/17777586668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirazonun.myartsonline.com/game_design_books_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutaturusix.myartsonline.com/tegiriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besenasoxa.epizy.com/bssc_inter_level_exam_notification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nolusiwafaki.epizy.com/xakiwetunotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://254a6a59-343e-4b7e-907c-c4819e171fff.filesusr.com/ugd/decf6f_28c922b7bdef4407947aa652fc089fe1.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCC 4948 bytes
SHA-256: 6e6445e93d18ab2ce375c7a054a4aceb53f48f031033c5e94e3e441f85cdde1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9E 17196 bytes
SHA-256: c53183fb61fe9382395392d55fe97bd77440170530a65b6a793bbde04d1fe737
font_02_sfnt_off00010af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e