Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7555646e7ac7696a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-03-01 02:29:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5c5999d75f613a5b0aa286895c7bcfd5 SHA-1: 254ee8fad0d54f9256989d7f63b76127e4de490d SHA-256: 7555646e7ac7696a8e6bc6d901bfdba6c506784e7a8bfe35db32ebd31e620bf0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains or subdomains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=what+is+the+main+theme+of+the+wonderful+wizard+of+oz PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vibebexez/kifqggL/wolefadaxezinudumudikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dokukavifig/8l2igfR/kiwonibisesudogapepitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup154.online/what_kind_of_oil_does_a_2008_rav4_takezfi0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitokaps.xyz/roxevanukibero66vs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frukt.fun/59744682617vtdso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruxunafifu/if7yhiT/side_pocket_arcade_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412174/normal_5febe6772aa48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerogebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637886/9382784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durunefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712847/bututavopoz_xovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/limizolaxa/ggTVMhc/fastlane_road_to_revenge_cheat_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapobukemofox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135974899/386669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366022/normal_5fe4e1ce7c13b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicechange.space/bolifumegkhl2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zokesafan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775675/jikimix-gawikitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vusutesilo/cLhdFhc/71034085055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polikarmonolit.ru/velamufozavavawubuwan4z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kevanosum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968994/7090583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zififawatef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134384507/xefaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukushka.space/cyborg_movie_freec1f85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000fa74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA74 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 84aea5e0beba9e7d404c500513aad398562e6494ab4a467783a4cec31701665b
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6E 10628 bytes
SHA-256: d0d10e4b1a149d6c1587b2ea3ed851ba156fa9481f5741de12ea038456d98a71

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