Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cde9f36809fafcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 06:23:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c1712053e868f7983d19d17d5a4adf62 SHA-1: 331422594f1eec18fd6716d3074b4e5a6a6b113c SHA-256: 5cde9f36809fafcbc1311a062925c8f0f07b7566a9954148825cf805432acb04
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious document, including a malformed exploit stream and a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation to distribute malware. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=best+colombia+travel+guide+2017 PDF link annotation
    • https://jumobagovuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697352/fc23bf813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383322/normal_5ff5f719aa425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485935/normal_5fcd389c6cfcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447093/normal_606a47101ca82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fopizute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315067/ee755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480161/normal_60b9e560b90ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495269/normal_600271ea990d5.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/3972308e-1385-45ae-ac59-4acbca9147af/tadopinejorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vulazojab.pbworks.com/f/achy_dolor_de_hombro_derecho.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa63f0bf-0076-45b0-99b0-dab6fe53209f/wesikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad62b86c-08c7-4329-8f30-f5c77d885b85/7054529337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garifukedako.pbworks.com/f/how_to_get_android_imei_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d25c3f4-be33-464d-be98-daae2a31632f/wenejujozerotiwuremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9d611be-09ed-4f9f-93c6-2e79d473641c/viwumeresume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevidaxen.pbworks.com/f/sazopikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pigikeziba.pbworks.com/f/thor_ragnarok_natalie_portman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47059f6b-ba9e-43a0-852d-20fb2a06c6ab/72366644512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupalalo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144783780/ruzomonufopatekogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukagafamo.pbworks.com/f/36425071733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c7f4127-aa6f-470b-8ca6-e90fccbcc17d/lijiduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zanopadik.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144919449/46964992692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/571bfe53-c8a2-4154-96c4-2e84366fb648/how_many_questions_are_asked_in_the_us_citizenship_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fesabijege.pbworks.com/f/chord_gitar_ari_lasso_hampa_kunci_dasar.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_off000116f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F2 5916 bytes
SHA-256: ce339174534a1ac1aa6b0a9bbd9eba7478c854093c4f571ee6d00347a31733c2
font_01_sfnt_off00012b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B09 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 05dca6fb5041228003886edf389765504ec8c8b917b95c9cf66c1d11e78912e2