Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 748b7b84265649f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-04-02 16:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5bedc389d696fb5fedc50a3465617b14 SHA-1: c756d3129d5723c4894887d474d30a52adba0f55 SHA-256: 748b7b84265649f797bdc5b90e79b28bd60d188c21f7d88b541ed9271c0955d5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. One of the primary external links, https://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=entrepreneurship+case+study+examples+pdf, is of particular interest as a potential distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=entrepreneurship+case+study+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://zabugejagovim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637755/4627369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamejozapana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814544/dexefoguri-nunotizon-dekozu-goniboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukivobiwizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097020/lafebikerogakasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidizujimon.getenjoyment.net/guguzimoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosutob.getenjoyment.net/94341041675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoxiniguve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584112/fanelokudom.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/2bba44e6-f858-4ade-978e-cada1dd0df55/diet_reward_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/424ec809-7f0f-4b68-bd9f-5535053ec61e/resistance_training_exercises_no_equipment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57b7f4bd-bda3-47d0-8bcd-84d2c1c9ad6d/mearsheimer_tragedy_of_great_power_politics_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bufijonewufo.onlinewebshop.net/basics_of_assembly_language_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa9d324d-1ed9-4c89-896e-11ce7a2eb066/positive_psychology_interventions_depression.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5f2f78b-c83d-43db-8e1a-48866dd732ec/balancing_chemical_equations_practice_doc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddd920ed-1b0a-4d76-99d1-921a023706f3/wanam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbca5baf-2b43-40e8-8218-d2f402cf4720/92229624651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e7b24a2-f85f-4b71-9c78-cd9766b84b77/maytag_neptune_washer_mah6500aww_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55a08bde-f37d-4494-9003-f550f1c045ec/roravagisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11b2004b-ef34-40da-ab65-f80446722042/how_to_tell_if_baby_acne_is_healing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zagapaxa/sedupazoxejita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muwemivumazulax/isometric_drawing_worksheet_ks2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bagokiko/what_is_the_best_macro_ratio_for_building_lean_muscle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jobavo/66248111122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3222aae5-a324-4b17-939e-f742caf3d9ed/should_mom_or_dad_be_capitalized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lomuper/rocky_5_songs_free.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_off00012210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12210 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba5396dc4849e1052e85aada3ac4892f10cde81c09372e8d6b364116b808c7e
font_01_sfnt_off000134c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C1 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 1f1fc20766bb70aabc753e4fa2dd370f1477800f805136a8f7687e646988118b