Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 720a9cb69983d004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-05-10 06:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 352afc3d9462dea4c3a7f7b90fdc324f SHA-1: d2b47502e03d225c6e936a77b3b0929892bdb756 SHA-256: 720a9cb69983d004c3846183ea736a6a503724f0fd1b57b55c3cda7e1c41e52c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm designed for SEO purposes, likely a phishing lure. The primary external URI, 'https://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=painting+display+easel+for+sale', suggests a deceptive offer to entice clicks. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of it being used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=painting+display+easel+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • http://spain50off.info/shop-vacpump_wet_dry_vacuum_37.8-lwh7u3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukuxojunuz.mypressonline.com/classroom_language_for_english_teachers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sepoxudozixo.sportsontheweb.net/33850863927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastcreditcheck.info/ashton_pienaar_net_wortht9av0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wogivodugakovek.mygamesonline.org/yamaha_dgx-205_76-key_portable_keyboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhl-order.info/lipejajuditesi31n54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemamibuke.mygamesonline.org/adobe_reader_for_windows_8_offline_installer.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/sigobija/synonyms_word_search_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d2d87fd5-5f4d-49aa-ab3c-2263ce4b5d22.filesusr.com/ugd/9169d2_b0b590fcf58343489ec31733c20f85d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cc0b58a5-7bf4-4b41-9cd7-d9bc0cd2cc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/6dc98b_1dce8cff628e4b74b8c3349a6cb46d1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nokiva/26521969084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebomedug/metaphor_in_romeo_and_juliet_act_4_scene_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://50037ee0-0691-4a53-bdc2-b2f8f795cfa6.filesusr.com/ugd/b41a9a_dce6cde80eb84a4b833bb1c3ffbd160e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wudibirewuduto/zimodomosejesexajurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tanikanaw/99895912823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koxogulu.rf.gd/vocabulary_cloze_exercises_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/temujonuwu/gugipedejewujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jukasuxoseki.atwebpages.com/net_present_value_irr_and_payback_period.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pesezozeve.rf.gd/aladdin_and_the_magic_lamp_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2c8134a4-d865-4da1-8961-c755d7242105.filesusr.com/ugd/6dcf04_57c25d0e253144008a47855a108bab34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fujadabez/84968428657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujafinu.epizy.com/n_s_f_ka_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinisemowoge/dragalia_lost_beginner_guide_reddit.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_off0000deac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAC 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 668b69fd0e0b49cb485888cb2c680ac06d69adc2f4fc892fc3ca2d23ed47888f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D5 11168 bytes
SHA-256: fdc032cb5bd8aa992f65631fc43827152c1e2ede64c9bab6c7a0f45a290e8cb7