Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b53c8991826c1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-03-11 02:31:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 678c43f5b1504054da896f0e0ae6143c SHA-1: 77331cbfef97241bae063a07d45402d7ae30d1f0 SHA-256: 74b53c8991826c1ecb581e2ea8d2ac30e288e61fa38e0e154852735f5b6eae1d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=organizational+culture+refers+to PDF link annotation
    • http://itravelgr.com/3.5e_monster_manual_3l40c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beremoter.online/butterball_indoor_electric_fryer_manualemic4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guwezasov/Xhhgdhc/live_stream_tv_free_soccer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://particulier-societegenerale.xyz/38138520041btls1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naziwixolagu/20hb7zI/cute_wallpapers_for_iphone_x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subafoxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379179/murawilujer_tavaluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixesijilolun.mywebcommunity.org/delhi_road_map_with_distance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxetiluwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483002/0ee64b9115c411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parazepurafeza.medianewsonline.com/dewalt_dw715_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-bita.org/difference_between_artificial_neural_network_and_deep_neural_network2ymtu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenaprobet.com/leave_application_form_for_employee_malaysiavobyp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4cd5a77a-be8d-44ba-8952-4177873115c4.filesusr.com/ugd/930050_5f37adfa8fe24469b27d6b441c761668.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f4861c6-cdf0-4a5f-ba2d-f9c5e5bfbee6.filesusr.com/ugd/77941b_a2265932783d408fb7b7b73b2220b01e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9de673a2-3b8e-40eb-bbf5-c0ad8e71a3da.filesusr.com/ugd/bd5c68_12b0c57e8b2f4be1a4d355422db94c48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fccd5518-64e1-462d-9dbe-8d8d8a19ca7a.filesusr.com/ugd/eb005d_6245043095a5441798b8034ea7da92d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c7f0abc7-d23b-482d-bd16-0771495bb668.filesusr.com/ugd/bb13a2_85c2fe80a4b84d85bb711803c4e2df36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3c86e5df-9a55-47dd-9d5b-c207b25ec6cd.filesusr.com/ugd/72bf36_a317d5c9672344f4bda879aa6a942860.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ececae0b-1312-4a4c-959a-117928b3d478.filesusr.com/ugd/e6721e_08c9a3192ee64f26a6c214a5dc89b57f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c370dac7-4848-4fa0-a6df-94361299e8ba.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6303_98c59026a15443deb1bf045dc026499f.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_off0000e802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE802 5128 bytes
SHA-256: baa1561c74379f15058ea22de05987cd19da7072948b1a5b7086faa517b7254a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98F 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 934764f5c6f7177157ee72f43e54f0f14eb31b38006471a2a25bbfd38ada3a9c