Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 711f0f43f931d31f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-04-16 10:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 70c9e68a1ce299848e8ad7a8a600a88b SHA-1: 9306054af54275358722b0442fedac21ca105496 SHA-256: 711f0f43f931d31f7daa1c5d108f0488f86612fb99cc8b86195452d26d62e793
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for SEO spam or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded links, such as 'https://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+obtain+a+business+line+of+credit', are likely part of a campaign to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+obtain+a+business+line+of+credit PDF link annotation
    • https://gujinaberukigav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856979/9556005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xploitcrew.io/meyerhof_g._1956._penetration_tests_and_bearing_capacity_of_cohesionless_soilsaq5mu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muborite.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442605/wowif-majojege-zopejiguvuduvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367313/normal_5fc69ebe59216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdvideo.design/big_stan_full_movie5q2be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robivobaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873737/sunilibabope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimugowome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134323071/6c29c0beb2e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pugorot.mygamesonline.org/arquitectura_griega_antigua.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-ita.fun/astrokings_space_battles_real-_time_strategy_mmo6nu8x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419206/normal_5fcdc573a53c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gigotuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164366/tabejezak.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/37c715c2-3b66-4983-aff8-ed45ccbb6fd9/what_are_all_the_topics_in_algebra_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4118c0b8-9a68-4d9a-8aa8-2563c9317cca/93398758269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/885e4196-1eb4-4f27-8d96-f34581009ad8/putujatotokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1fa778e9-dfe6-46dc-88c9-93fce217735d/zizimakapaxisami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/afc6360d-8f73-4af7-bb9c-c1c4bf56dc46/razajevalugitezugadelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db271dcb-9250-446a-b08f-32704c3ad75c/what_are_call_to_action_used_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8cd4504-b375-4ce5-9218-ad33cb04bb0c/brother_mfc_8710_printer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pofijiserige.onlinewebshop.net/17913007996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e219be5-169b-4350-ae11-8fc5c448fe4e/us_imperialism_in_latin_america_timeline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/37f01335-c8f9-4825-97cc-f484130f552b/graco_milestone_car_seat_3_in_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a65851c-0d1e-488a-b9b5-9c734a965d04/machine_learning_python_coursera_github.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_off0000f434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF434 5208 bytes
SHA-256: cdae86e7f29d51a5c9d9ac944dd1f170534fcbb57e4dbba8553cf5eb1edfefe2
font_01_sfnt_off00010606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10606 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 8a679502d6c50f018d2e6f23bcf84e0913f867895d67f2a5fed4ccbe204714a3