Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71127699dc98da1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.3 KB Created: 2021-03-17 09:45:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9c836005dddaa0b32af7165b569284b7 SHA-1: a2005476721da289fc77702e0154a558ae0be10a SHA-256: 71127699dc98da1dd4d21e96a4fb68df9bc3352951a2d34a80eac4186bf8ee99
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a high volume of outbound links, and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'Australian visa application form', likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=australian+visa+application+form+54+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bebetirifam/eCtCged/49490075250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wusator.mygamesonline.org/zenepexovumaruneweded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezozepefik/4Gjjghi/jemitexumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/doxowite/Yjcigja/roxaxisuvinumupoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcreditscore.info/keledatu0x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opensalon.xyz/john_deere_425_54_inch_mower_deck_parts_diagramkhubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwosiju.getenjoyment.net/schwinn_430_elliptical_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lituxopevuk/1Cf6Fv7/74022052010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tedigedubemi/gKidlhS/jukanoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fijufupuga/Hhbjjif/woxetinigolamokumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisinsapp.club/riwisejuxuxuzigof5irh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://help-bluebadgecenter.com/gst_acknowledgement_slipbfr6g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojumisebu/2myxidD/pagogoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/janawezexoj/gdibTE7/ding_dong_the_witch_is_dead_lyrics_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genunilime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344847/4968607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizitodavil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321392/wozevogugekul_xakizifotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tusufawenu/jhhjfN8/world_war_iii_team_yankee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cfd81441-f382-44d3-a605-4022d0c7a165/how_long_to_cook_turkey_in_rotisserie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/372f5f8e-846f-4baf-948a-1cc1cfe3aaf7/robaniwomaragavu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001837f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1837F 5564 bytes
SHA-256: cee1919643aa6f98dd229adbb1f94d17c5cdbfed83dc323e60009a413263d09f
font_01_sfnt_off00019660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19660 5308 bytes
SHA-256: b59029ee5f3856a8aa2d00a8b92a125842446f0963075e8fc15096b0df8fb2b1
font_02_sfnt_off0001a4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A4EE 13896 bytes
SHA-256: 9c11574b0bff9d14487c0aa2c3bb86a23c6e9da63c1bd2ae6e3bd4ecc2f3a80a
font_03_sfnt_off0001d28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D28A 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 907e3bfdd579df76277103d0435bf2717d01aaafdd7f4ee3652d1a4e7920044a