Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 654e2d4b56697092…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-12 09:39:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: ce019b35075f7e7e8a6db987f08bbf35 SHA-1: b3e94789f6e3dff3b488d9f2644217584c02b2c5 SHA-256: 654e2d4b56697092da7ae7367a162a2adb41727bf6aa7d865ab7e54dc680afdf
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a malformed exploit stream and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs and the nature of the links (e.g., 'free steam cards') point towards a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://resalured.ru/wix?keyword=free+steam+cards+no+survey PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wigalefu/ihchdzx/school_teach_learn_english_abroad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitisasituwag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846324/xilimore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sileluzorupo/mqNW5hj/witejoxuxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pobijejok/FrJjhJP/strategic_human_resource_management_planning_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rijunawep/NFMj0if/joe_rogan_groove_life_discount_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kulabokirow/0TgCmhf/galaxy_conquest_board_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piwaxiru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882920/ponapifuw_xokub_gevuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jevefelenop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775498/gipofusotebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijofufakeziti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380729/tadikuvipemo_koxodurotan_jugiwinuxukaf_sijireziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biniwitovo.mywebcommunity.org/close_corporation_act_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bivojeda.atwebpages.com/47186832778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilepivulibav.epizy.com/26849862490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobegizoginipe.epizy.com/xekivosopigijatozunewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7bd4f7af-c263-4c84-b14c-33afebcbe27c/delta_adley_crib_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7a61e64-26d7-444b-a5a1-db8316b228a9/panasonic_phone_number_for_customer_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b840928-8f60-417c-b3dc-4a946e1f0d71/how_to_eat_fried_worms_book_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba0de1b7-b4cf-44f3-86a9-7092405ed64e/saxapodalejetusarisonebom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuromu.atwebpages.com/are_volvo_expensive_to_maintain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01a8e6ad-9d06-4eae-a285-e39e30bbb54a/graco_click_connect_35_size_limit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e65f749-226f-4de4-9871-c097529d7149/40271251860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/131c565f-49a6-4553-ad10-cadfdba474b2/are_all_boletus_mushrooms_edible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vafowoloxesimam.rf.gd/69820269488.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_off0000fa15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA15 5172 bytes
SHA-256: f97eab24ea5f1dbb4a52c8848c5d515058d0794d680af6ed8486816ebc72faa6
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA0 10736 bytes
SHA-256: b8967aac8345a9ca36d4a63da54d6b4600174445b850a0dd4e398b7bb27d89c5