Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b649c1b76b364c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

150.4 KB Created: 2021-03-24 18:17:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6da21b93a0f1c1f125cd0eecf77b3b40 SHA-1: b543f229136cbdfdb8dc01cce113166d751afb41 SHA-256: 74b649c1b76b364c67055ce65394444af302b7747347e038498c369303a1b0bf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Dota 2 items guide for beginners', likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://golowaki.ru/123?utm_term=dota+2+items+guide+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • http://dapajurop.mygamesonline.org/fewagodemuroxatuvajekitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenusabipowezo.getenjoyment.net/lixidijuxasepudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jivavesomuviz.getenjoyment.net/nel_tornado_coil_for_garrett_ace_250_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jidogirikar.mygamesonline.org/xilarofeputubugibitugakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fuvuvadut.onlinewebshop.net/zigusimule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d1b6b380-f15b-462b-86b5-0b089ba7d90d.filesusr.com/ugd/f99a33_fa23ed7f76c54461888612b44a75e47c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8071fb1-33dc-4bb9-9fe9-292e0ca0d861.filesusr.com/ugd/253000_eb9ecedefa5340ddaebc63ffe5889a89.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8d94caac-80d5-4f6d-a73a-04ed47837dc1.filesusr.com/ugd/585b1d_6e51015ba5a74d4da62d07bc7e79a80b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/424524c5-db9c-4fc9-9c0a-af3f5bac13dc/87122687878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiloradakuno.onlinewebshop.net/vowewubarominozuxidegoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://df1882fa-13c5-42f1-8438-577935b594b9.filesusr.com/ugd/91932b_84ee85bcbeef4dec9cf86f31a06a2544.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e53c8fcc-339b-4d8f-83f6-44ddc8c6ace4.filesusr.com/ugd/1ea9c4_300ad8fe74d74e9496b890b7f0e2a92a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d525ee04-2a40-494f-8ba9-fee52f7b18ee.filesusr.com/ugd/8b8e24_79c84738131649fc8033396ea2007a71.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d670dda7-df53-4ef1-8eda-d3256df28744.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbbec_84330a429f4b4cfa8c04af247a4491a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3fb740b9-71d8-4183-8edb-de11b68c0a29.filesusr.com/ugd/1fbf8b_08976721ca514fc394a3a5b4e44e5320.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3139832-4e22-49e6-b503-cfee26740a2f/trane_cleaneffects_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2cc12256-1025-444a-bacb-901a9f007bda.filesusr.com/ugd/d1fcfc_f33721f17792472eb11cc61c688f2e87.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e3f86847-561d-4d3d-bbca-e7fd0759b496/how_to_fix_squeaky_lg_dryer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedawobu.atwebpages.com/packliste_backpacking_thailand.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85138c3b-b824-4945-b908-1d0b0f1cd3c9/john_deere_lawn_tractor_battery_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d25e5d79-f3dc-43ab-8538-58f2f4730235.filesusr.com/ugd/898300_b7803b1e39534bd89e7d8c88ed02c965.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bokepomi.onlinewebshop.net/4152492485.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_off00021321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21321 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 15fd18fbba2aafc48c5c1abd8c9d4dbaaf0634fb82a85a7738332b061b5f4fd3
font_01_sfnt_off000225ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x225AD 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 8f960fc093e23a143a360d0dea6376a6883ef47457ce36ed4c92760a052b9d66