Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 763f3a3824546a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-03-12 14:32:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d2f5aeb36d53c8e55a1c9b7af5169a03 SHA-1: 23f5c3c633e76ce8d9d4a742c424ea888e484c13 SHA-256: 763f3a3824546a9a81103728be01cb9bb978ba791fb84e529ba78702327fe4ef
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of multiple external URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=easy+learn+korean+language+app PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369493/normal_601fab6b0a20f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosonetibekub.medianewsonline.com/libro_el_arte_de_seducir_para_dummies_descargar_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459175/normal_60353438d7c21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wodedutipif.medianewsonline.com/59370597206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473384/normal_5fff034dccefc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408879/normal_5ff01a97621d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388165/normal_6039550d27f69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481675/normal_5fe4fd45304c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426813/normal_603b4f2ff2f33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peteferix.mypressonline.com/lotofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajazenizur.mywebcommunity.org/bopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://466f9527-ada3-48b4-ac0c-4ba5546996ca.filesusr.com/ugd/a4b6b9_8526cef4ad0f4816ad453c13b4b9221e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://40e214c1-1950-44e8-a195-e2c6eeb23253.filesusr.com/ugd/a517f4_42ad0f7d76ed422bb68e9f54783eec44.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2559d30b-64cd-4b4d-aaad-e76a675dde99.filesusr.com/ugd/f5a024_fdf9bd9d1a694a7db82a103c48f8db67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jitawidavez.atwebpages.com/pudusofavuwoxasipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9ef77391-fdd1-48d8-ba15-364b07375333.filesusr.com/ugd/ebefdf_8c794f340ccb4a58babf87a7029c3ee1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://711920be-b761-4f0e-a604-762b26663b16.filesusr.com/ugd/ffcbea_e761379b164c45aebadcbdbf58177fff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1c43a76-4d3c-4605-b6dd-99bd231d8cb8/27118533607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a121017b-3fb3-450c-9156-48dd71a9bf80.filesusr.com/ugd/07625c_c89ca1e492c1463d9471801b75fa327a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://923a8ca3-316b-4844-b38f-9bc955ad4852.filesusr.com/ugd/312e0e_3d7748056b474348b323b9802071084b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62884eb2-72d0-4ace-a781-47e47613eb00/how_to_grease_locking_hubs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c36efdde-2309-4ce2-a10d-b6df2ce12cd8.filesusr.com/ugd/e98059_d7507d33d6d94851ab2b850b8472aa6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8edc165-7a7e-4aab-bd97-d7938ed1648e/onyx_plus_toy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d64d5b41-a66a-4b78-b87f-0feaf8e9cf76.filesusr.com/ugd/cf1aed_313e2d719dbc4d5c9d0aaaaf336b1a95.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_off00010560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10560 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 725b5b35a49b3f64a2d03059d8a29acb5d3f51e5921a2b57c1abdec9e44fdf33
font_01_sfnt_off000116e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E7 12280 bytes
SHA-256: 05492dbf693773f17163e84c365182ebe7ea90847b9d62fd13ca5fcffe660384