Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65924d13d0021c61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-14 04:45:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 9240f675b8303fa64f9bdf75b4bfe3b0 SHA-1: 50b4c5d7053b8e9f353fa71c777469f9f31caf39 SHA-256: 65924d13d0021c619230170e0a300078ed5562755d767dca581fce6a9118fff7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with a significant number of external URLs embedded within it. The presence of multiple disposable hosting domains and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute content through a network of sites. While no scripts were extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via the linked URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=general+knowledge+questions+and+answers+in+kannada PDF link annotation
    • https://ramasiwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135390431/jurulutodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477873/normal_60159f5a9cac5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445739/normal_5fdd61752fd48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://julovupepopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522834/jozitikezog-fizugew-sedazanuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatazuleb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662889/971c51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382418/normal_6015752410f18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resivoviwogo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133987135/1373250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoxolupuvil.getenjoyment.net/what_is_considered_non_western.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nelugawoteraxum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707069/4795322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bitujiduruv.myartsonline.com/crown_princess_cruises_deck_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://393102e6-89af-4738-8cad-89662dba8dc5.filesusr.com/ugd/33a16d_0e52d2f49ba44d0d80fa6a9cc11e8add.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://964beff5-d24f-450a-94e2-fa7e9faef44a.filesusr.com/ugd/61158f_65094862e1904aa39cb52a351472cecb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/legesiliv/gozumutokojusota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://70fbc5f3-53e4-4072-9ff7-a5862d19847b.filesusr.com/ugd/bb3bf9_1bca8ac3514f40939cc0744005b3adc5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d3df31c7-72fe-42b1-a92e-0723e8ed7a16.filesusr.com/ugd/5bf82b_67e613d331a54bd9a62ba7322917dedb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://527ed197-5826-4432-9c89-449afa9d705e.filesusr.com/ugd/65ef70_85d984f9e0fa4c9ea0c82e9319f6c675.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2a497570-3881-454f-aefc-229a18bbdf22.filesusr.com/ugd/83e24f_6d0f06fa47d74bd4ad0f8eeec9771708.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fowimifefezujo.myartsonline.com/gojodorulaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirosisob/50th_wedding_anniversary_card_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7aff118d-26f6-4d76-9bc9-1838009e7274.filesusr.com/ugd/f80014_b162f8e9b3bc489da40e55f1f56e2d01.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CA 5304 bytes
SHA-256: f58b15280764185adf14c5a1ac7b0844d781c229054bbc73cef98adbff9ffeb6
font_01_sfnt_off000108f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F2 10916 bytes
SHA-256: cffb132880a583fe61a479aec40961496878b07f565f6970c5435f44d24d4b86