Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72884d3f40194999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-03-23 06:18:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a9aeae6704a607406912f159c0704cdc SHA-1: 58f23b3f09f0026868ed37583e26068687d13280 SHA-256: 72884d3f401949992279e0a68acdfdf2d7ae0edae3bf3a07e17fc97fd545d6d1
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, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://fokemale.ru/award?keyword=biology+objective+questions+and+answers+pdf+download', are likely part of this scheme.

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://fokemale.ru/award?keyword=biology+objective+questions+and+answers+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447878/normal_60377ad888e7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapumew.22web.org/xedepuvijaxefumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixumoxijabana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748481/9371500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417530/normal_5fce0318f235d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifejolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410009/631835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452381/normal_603b71029f669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412762/normal_60401c436f97d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384483/normal_60506be05a2d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenamifub.22web.org/mirelulatesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fuzafuzeruwit/koxidadirebarewedede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sekekubonigav.rf.gd/analytical_presentation_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vukusa/49752898168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wolawatin/clariant_chemicals_annual_report_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://190d602c-e74a-4ea1-b1d2-d722d7947d0f.filesusr.com/ugd/1eddd4_a2693cce197349f6a3401f6a18d8f368.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://29aa9d28-cc9d-45fc-8d86-3718b5881c84.filesusr.com/ugd/74c34a_b756529a5bb84d4099b7b116a7118a32.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e3c65705-3664-417e-97b1-2ac29bfab8bd.filesusr.com/ugd/6a5da5_99eb5ee8328249e8a9d65625a374b21d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vomifavub.epizy.com/96130785731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebalakafepikob.rf.gd/how_to_set_timer_on_black_and_decker_bread_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4123e755-5e7e-4fb8-b167-49ba90d37259.filesusr.com/ugd/fd3290_a731501ec3fb41a88a7eb421d9848ddb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0cead0d-5248-483d-940e-95cc3acd9bde.filesusr.com/ugd/20d83a_c9add2f17e8c409f92b7f0b330d3c320.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B2 5852 bytes
SHA-256: d04474e8844efe901e4ff0fcbb951ddf9980a424fed3ea6ec2f2f20f12cf23c7
font_01_sfnt_off000109b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B9 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 74fd3e00d94f25923716e64918630d17395c4acc6ffb850f9e3291456dfdaf06
font_02_sfnt_off00012f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F22 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3