Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60da793ac64f375c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-04-05 10:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 91728f5a2fb3149e9987b12c02d517ce SHA-1: a9392c555739c60ee10ef6a7e639a74088a6e797 SHA-256: 60da793ac64f375ce55e4fc83407c8c3ea3d0a3b55c26034fe514ef94c4b687a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it is part of an SEO spam or phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains a title related to cleaning a Bissell PowerSteamer PowerBrush, which is likely a lure to direct users to the malicious external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+clean+a+bissell+powersteamer+powerbrush PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dowusutitozi/gjvhgFH/french_acrylic_nails_kiss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gukokefa/hjIgcVl/space_warfare_center_schriever_afb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokio-2020.fun/wosomop93f81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latesadujogoxov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607544/gowarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qupieasy.online/vigebagodue3ug0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimezoribetigaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134676461/9165687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eagleaff.com/34384507883ct0hp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxiduwanati.mygamesonline.org/17477498026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luwivimexu/L5iigjN/pokemon_showdown_teams_disappeared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gomafaned.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135296522/kataxopoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvuwivozud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136091804/3c319fea4962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamigome.scienceontheweb.net/assemblies_of_god_statement_of_faith.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dektesheff.xyz/9480290775pyvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xojapafe/UjfHjaP/operations_management_certificate_university_of_phoenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vikaxokaso/dMijghc/printable_graduation_announcement_templates_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afterdealer.pro/53823763041zeqxb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapasin.sportsontheweb.net/58810296591.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://a1f0096d-76f5-425c-b826-5ccbd312c1bc.filesusr.com/ugd/8f8c07_44dfb774128d45639983f746e69bb2ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9b882fc-e0d4-4027-820a-87f30249164f/what_is_a_social_researcher.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e95589a0-04f8-45cb-8ca2-d051c398958e/sonerokawuvamegupuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/225282b6-0422-4949-aa00-963a1cb72aa8/the_darkest_minds_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e22e8d81-f41f-4d51-abb1-39b19d2d32bb.filesusr.com/ugd/96bf9d_26fc89a6c03144c08160eb71bf9a4297.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4db61c00-1078-4917-8a1c-a2c1480eb6e0.filesusr.com/ugd/c94206_f81014f13f364f81ad06a7e9783e3dda.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://68358877-4ee6-4e53-94f7-4bd9665c1f53.filesusr.com/ugd/3bbd68_b09b6e485eaf4024b13815d4a6924b53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc5ff7f7-800c-4ad6-b024-8880dba1a434/el_seor_de_las_moscas_pelicula_online_latino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://69b12d55-863e-458e-a545-ad358ed6bd1a.filesusr.com/ugd/a9642c_57671651bcbf4b7a96735ec5e81c3e5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0931450c-983f-4626-92cf-629142055122/metroid_prime_2_guide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B5 5248 bytes
SHA-256: b19bec2c4b6d8e94b16ddcc2f72526057bc031aadccb466b56b393a8e09c87d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF961 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 8d218454fa73505eddce0ead97cd5ef06373288d19b7b21db6ae8a79ec9bf2a7
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3