Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7693da72e2d4fad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2020-12-23 19:23:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e58452bf32a86c114af0897bec54f1ea SHA-1: 3987f1f758f7455e1a4384293cb6cb311a1782fa SHA-256: 7693da72e2d4fad08cf98db77b07a79e05e08e070f2970a0f1c1761cfa869629
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to "Top ten arabic songs 2018". The presence of PDF-specific heuristics and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=top+ten+arabic+songs+2018 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/liwewajawab/jgjiji7/nebuwenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledekatibawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265754/vedijenijuju-winoximanatanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nubonikajifubi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882340/c7fc060590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolipakefupixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134614949/vobezupuvofufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukowuxipimo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318810/jilatimuwizifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bufaxivija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383981/7761628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezaxegare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380636/rogapojirilivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losewilim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854933/pivexe_tibelofap_wadonapivexik_xevuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366659/normal_5f8f8ad90d869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://labegemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134709462/01d22e16974.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/ed1bbbea-bad2-4560-8ee4-24435d43f7e1/homemade_clip_on_earrings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/777c418d-f362-4690-886d-fe0cb970027a/xeboruwumak.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AB 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 717519a957a82e3d67d20a5a06a21e68765d3a7fe97dbb3c7c45b645d3cfc992
font_01_sfnt_off0000db08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB08 10572 bytes
SHA-256: cdd05fba172e889a4736499f1b99b1bce85395914aa7c0d6390740f7bf53b07b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3A 19492 bytes
SHA-256: 4fbbf218b99ac78226a120bac01f267c686141acbcf8605facfbde64597d43c7