Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694210d739446128…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-03-27 19:54:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 557c766aa0d62a67a04c38ba95bb6232 SHA-1: b93869fefecd3c21a71dd506f8f6870db0da3ee2 SHA-256: 694210d73944612847409d398738f1580d4667f1a45f5af1e0878d2728462145
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to SEO redirectors designed to phish users or distribute malware. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicate a mass linking strategy. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via the linked URLs.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=yi+guide+season+9 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427105/normal_60588a56cbf07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465545/normal_5feb1e1d4e71d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448124/normal_5fcf40e555d3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383801/normal_5ff0da221fe3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kewisanoxiv.66ghz.com/barreras_de_la_comunicacion_efectiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405639/normal_604638adcf631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zagubip/61666462722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagusax.rf.gd/fiwugeguwetozezefopebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/niporofez/what_are_the_phonological_processes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupagivoz/wobefizidazukenetevafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gisujubolidine/soundcloud_music_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sitozi/bsc_part_2_mathematics_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penefelomiju/28210781636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mukutud/vandanam_film_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dapekufoxiraku/solving_quadratic_equations_using_the_quadratic_formula_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/megelugik/dedokobubeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c3bb11cb-ba02-405d-8462-2b4421b436e1.filesusr.com/ugd/4c7814_b49d71e6093e4586a95fface25bf073f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vukusa/microsoft_word_form_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2791e1c6-719d-47aa-bdc5-1556df251b63.filesusr.com/ugd/7757c5_a95cf1a4ce9a47a1a03a06afe346165f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://436010f1-0dd7-4950-aec0-3bdf337573e8.filesusr.com/ugd/5a4c69_35b386464a424177b523a38ebe8a8710.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C9 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 93901583e91a47f3c15d09cd2522c70a7306676ab5ff052cbbfd284fb61cb6be
font_01_sfnt_off0000face.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACE 12836 bytes
SHA-256: ed01bf9bcd13d92e36159d45bb40d538c6fec7d2e8656b71eb900f593d2958be
font_02_sfnt_off0001252c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252C 16388 bytes
SHA-256: b118bf8f3468b870ea82de88118c563a82ad09939cd32474287ab8b35cea958c