Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7184d5a601ac39c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 07:39:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c01d2817575704e29c4edb9555380478 SHA-1: a9232a93f2ec5ea9a30b6959436c090172242322 SHA-256: 7184d5a601ac39c5cef24c69751161327464f2546b04b63cce76ecdb027b6dd5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs, with a primary focus on directing users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure of the document suggest it is used to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/wix?keyword=unblocked+skull+kid+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/6hdigjb/calligraphy_fonts_free_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-info.ru/tufewozebodijofabaepn38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pegidago/3TiegjA/assembly_factory_outlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/terasovo/idia3dq/how_to_draw_anime_hair_in_photoshop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-onlinediscount.xyz/bixby_voice_assistant_appykct7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://441dbedc-201a-49d7-bb2a-292980023e2b.filesusr.com/ugd/473728_b582f2ad050e4d3a9b005a480746cff0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb7bf4c5-056f-4058-a7d1-073478569b53.filesusr.com/ugd/d90490_d24aae0d2cd8451d8d4a4875b8bd8290.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e3c65705-3664-417e-97b1-2ac29bfab8bd.filesusr.com/ugd/6a5da5_4dd2c72cfa8e44e780299a6fc7565ade.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e3e1c2aa-7f41-47b0-8c2f-d823cb48b857.filesusr.com/ugd/7598fa_1b0a0d7b32024da781ad33b6720f04a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muwemivumazulax/accounting_balance_sheet_exercises_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://979cd01f-16ea-4d2c-b189-234964c95597.filesusr.com/ugd/d4c4cf_9114e7cb3f6749a49bf51d2b2c2ab51b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8eb0ff2f-1b5f-41fb-a82b-bf279dc7f43e.filesusr.com/ugd/868f76_87cd73f6c59a45b3b4a791021af62f85.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b01cffea-7a05-49e8-9781-04202a21c04b.filesusr.com/ugd/d5d855_a99cea9e32104bfea09c4fa5c4b3bddd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://680e7e7f-99bb-4309-8a01-ecc910dc7690.filesusr.com/ugd/717a42_2da9a693aaaa441e8a454745522fc976.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d80f29e5-b60c-4034-b355-14c03cb49cca.filesusr.com/ugd/ff44ec_b100e378376c4451bb7859489517c8a9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://09d56968-2ae9-412d-ad86-e67dc63a1c23.filesusr.com/ugd/e8b91f_9e8129dde79d4e2598e35dc98789382b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rexogeguxosix/78418254878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dibedamoka/possessive_nouns_worksheet_grade_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://104e0e48-a4c2-4a03-8647-06ef64d4e6ac.filesusr.com/ugd/e2c6c1_7eeaf3e58f184657bfd320af6eb9246e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c54d0bb-9de8-469b-abb1-33232a952ba9.filesusr.com/ugd/370e3f_d0ab61ccb8544907952518e951cf5a16.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE815 4952 bytes
SHA-256: 81cb153b257ce43e0d1f988a9bbcecca91ef79931e27310a02c0aa8eaa7e6c3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF909 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 927a9c9d341aa61bf07d5e56b7b7de556403cd7eaf667706ff36df57485d9568