Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d17cabccc18bc3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-04-03 07:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a909a7d013567e4c4dd038ccb1f3fbbe SHA-1: cebca169f47bdf2a8e4cc1c4dcf771b366ec2120 SHA-256: 5d17cabccc18bc3a4159678df1b089ec07b0a3c24e6e369d49d6077b078d3cc7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+become+a+licensed+minister+in+texas
    • https://wapubepedud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455956/gavurakixa.pdf
    • http://koprovk.xyz/planet_fitness_workout_routine_to_build_muscletn2i9.pdf
    • https://guwosifewutus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616196/sevamibezalusa.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426810/normal_5fe24e6571256.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455194/normal_5feaeddbcec0d.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofokamibe/ebig9rq/xizokamidelol.pdf
    • http://cookwellbakewell.com/dimuxl07kr.pdf
    • https://petizigosi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134903326/ragitezovujuga.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481665/normal_600694aa51d58.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiseguvugele/Zucjdgj/38895383820.pdf
    • https://minizejemeroro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740725/pasadorojalawodasefo.pdf
    • http://fasadi.site/bizobahzl2f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408589/normal_6054021d88d8f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33ceecd3-c747-460f-85ef-f33014593355/sony_str-dn840_review.pdf
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_c90b970b0d274d11a154cd7e1774e028.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/41aef5b6-002b-429d-964e-4fc7aeed6184/68072111094.pdf
    • https://0feddc0e-03bc-46a3-a741-45303deff239.filesusr.com/ugd/6ea6a2_430c1519fc634e468c6d9be696d4f97b.pdf?index=true
    • https://cd70d4e5-4a1a-4071-96d1-f2415ea5ece1.filesusr.com/ugd/7f46b5_f2d1731e44d8469d87f7500bd5656852.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8c2cbcf-ee88-4a87-aab7-731c6b2f4b8e/how_to_formulate_a_strategy_statement.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51d259e1-6d61-40cb-bc80-4aff1523db71/midsummer_nights_dream_summary_video.pdf
    • https://0e627107-309b-4451-a84d-e7064c41fccd.filesusr.com/ugd/04c368_c9774b97b13d425d82e20035e8fde062.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f512.bin
833d8499cdcf70ec7414adc5691e611374a30baa9e91d35a6585306ba3343415
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF512 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001072f.bin
8eb893f36cc331915b34968477a4851efef5772359e82818bb2f6bad27e63989
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072F 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b88.bin
a1e2968ca8c7638dd4bef022e186f3fea2b098bc52bbc7b81535a6634822059c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B88 16060 bytes