Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 605e0f0b71b9e2e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-08 20:49:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6ddcdaba49ad7f9044f5b16e0b961d22 SHA-1: a4a5c97d6cf0abb79a7537067287c865039465b0 SHA-256: 605e0f0b71b9e2e5c971b09a389c2aba232765a4abaa92ae66c1c29f78f11a1b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a potential phishing lure related to a book title. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high volume of links hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious activity. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=me+before+you+series+book+4 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4502906/normal_601980dcc4b39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zunesunatiri/heifMjf/harvey_birdman_attorney_at_law_booty_noir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/faserekino/0yib4gJ/19952327178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vusabutam/fjhnbgf/see_followers_timeline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujisuki.mygamesonline.org/7873840393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nipobajomofak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134641158/1855247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461481/normal_60010a902eee3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotarivinevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599250/bdb0742d4a54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vifejoneses/geifTij/atualizar_android_tablet_samsung_n8000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudesiresa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881981/loninagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuloriwilorij.scienceontheweb.net/fujotumebegata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454681/normal_5fdd71d0eaf2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memisada.mygamesonline.org/third_grade_spelling_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490524/normal_6022bdb9da9e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xogubafirugufa.iblogger.org/classical_harmonic_oscillator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medadafamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775854/vedasimuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazenesulamese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164173/jalodewujugizulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufapemosisubev.22web.org/how_much_dog_license_cost.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/208e97c5-9f6e-414c-b473-9ea53bceffbf/degudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zofududa.rf.gd/le_storytelling_en_marketing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zasuwunal.myartsonline.com/zitakuzati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05b789a3-0710-4c20-ba0c-79f0d0b0b6f0/momo_traders_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f872832-4a8c-4a59-a807-82f8008a9a8d/apc_battery_backup_550_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/119ca33c-d738-449e-a0e5-78ffea5cb947/what_is_meant_by_nationalism_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/271a127f-97ac-41d6-9b5d-659f143bf5dc/rejexelijuresab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapifemesi.rf.gd/brother_xl_2600_sewing_machine.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_off0000f6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F7 4916 bytes
SHA-256: cc4de5d767cc07b27a7be6efe2bec57a7105069fbd48edd7828499c726d1fa65
font_01_sfnt_off000107e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E2 10436 bytes
SHA-256: eded574c5ca044c8b81c44db6c3f46d71056df25c388bbdc407d7cb23dccb0cd