Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7010785093a859c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-04-18 00:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a96c1b269ba73b830743af7685570ffb SHA-1: 6ec58e2790e158aa1ad71c7e427883eaa86bcd50 SHA-256: 7010785093a859c89279ce429a9376904fb1de0f326171a97bd96995212764b9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=maximum+ride+forever+by+james+patterson PDF link annotation
    • https://natadafupekex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856288/tepikoniv-fidarokolate-zizimolikiwiv-wuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negazebofukiwan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318678/rabolutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373527/normal_5fef04b1d2192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nigusejokolutat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688827/c2b3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukodebavuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657655/rewutigekujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majabowuji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136092793/95e3a1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zefipoxiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681281/3720054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492901/normal_5fea133990d1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://witabavuwimob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339013/tivur-jutoxe-nagedukopi-bujereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dumuwikodopod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458554/9598170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sisivijujejaliw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741673/a14db88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483864/normal_601d56ae928d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevenilusowaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134324486/39bbcee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevubulik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680874/5829985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolekidir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134441437/logotidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a3cd4400-5fdc-4e6a-bda8-88556a2d4d1f.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7489_abb05cd3c5124b05a96f4d4da3b1974c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb47f074-0476-4434-b381-5672a365cab8.filesusr.com/ugd/c46c8a_ab12f2f905e140b6815c6147474719b0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://07f52280-50dc-49c2-beec-a2e30bf849d0.filesusr.com/ugd/7b8f90_1e4a5573704f4ce89dcf398fde41718f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f06ae689-34e6-4fd9-b749-a5985747e370.filesusr.com/ugd/4117a9_dc15312496404a42bd591beea010118f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://95a57b4d-a24c-4412-bd87-88f4f885d252.filesusr.com/ugd/011e4b_a3fd87549b1e484b83dbc4c4fd8d7062.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a1c9bafd-2917-4c1b-b79c-a4b44a941470.filesusr.com/ugd/f0f215_3c75b33019694423aa0c85ee9c8b05e0.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_off0000d794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD794 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 91e6ef79330467b46a0a417a1628c1d99c18069c4aeb210f0fd21d98f655bf1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAD 10804 bytes
SHA-256: e790a0ec4b88fb76f56f1475b7372721560fa914b00f2e3827517a1026d0dd49
font_02_sfnt_off00010fb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB1 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 531e37f64a2e7dc3bfb257675d9e6c644c7b1597f33ba9a969cd005a7ed65660