Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 669e8df487897644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-03-29 21:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ec7ef955de128632d29245f63b346f6c SHA-1: d6da875ccf6bcc30d5947dbe4a0a2761b36d40d9 SHA-256: 669e8df4878976446aabb9d8d2b51102b476714f18d7880e3a466c4bbd8cafe5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, a common tactic for link farms or phishing campaigns. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=allan+pease+testbesz%25C3%25A9d+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467273/normal_5fdd47d96f1b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuzofofe.iblogger.org/aggiornamento_android_oreo_p8_lite_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412780/normal_6050c65788367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418381/normal_603ba800f3dc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457582/normal_602ec32123b4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetajazonigifa.iblogger.org/processing_handling_and_storage_of_agricultural_products.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://650c977b-0274-48a2-8498-43c0efc39f4e.filesusr.com/ugd/dbad32_238a3472af204d349230dc55e082fa2d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://288c7b4b-0494-48f6-8ee2-9dd519b96b0a.filesusr.com/ugd/a107db_5f91bffd13134a43b65c89fb1a394d6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f014c44e-2bd7-4679-91a2-53a30a1784dc/jefonusotukilitinuboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuduwonifa/sedoparuzusamerobadapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5300c463-5506-4bea-a5be-1be46f08064b/jetubenubeginuripid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fegubitexore.rf.gd/chrome_app_android_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e169721-70d0-4e17-bf73-d016089b423c/26624284274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/firigugixujotov/what_do_you_do_if_you_lose_your_vizio_remote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzazodigeza.epizy.com/fibipomokuxabiwijezigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a38b0af1-e695-4eb9-8d8a-fffa07b7de4f/zubelomezabulokepawuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://28f2c00a-638b-45ec-8848-4d649cb6aba9.filesusr.com/ugd/946f28_a0a903bc746c4642932a147160960ff7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/edfe390b-8714-47d6-8140-b1f67d367360/78103499418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65ef10da-aba9-4d74-a73c-8df2e3d33ac6/which_of_the_following_is_not_a_characteristic_of_a_process_cost_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sowewazulejewi/image_from_azure_blob_c.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_off0000e25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25D 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2c2267461b3db56d47f752b4a354fc959dbc9c75e4f82ca8a1d2b03ae69860
font_01_sfnt_off0000f415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF415 13596 bytes
SHA-256: c943ef4069c080fe8f7842d079dc4d33f5d4d34a7178ab85347493c175b04e22