Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78be9338ce3cc50c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-03-23 05:47:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bb148541c8f60e74b84242fd168064ed SHA-1: dd0e0604b6058232544430ea43996246d7ad8cd7 SHA-256: 78be9338ce3cc50ce9660e7eb29e361060c6d2a1f34eab34ce3300f08aaec18f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, characteristic of link farms or phishing lures. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the overall structure points to a malicious distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=acute+respiratory+distress+syndrome+nejm+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/temejikowewa/cgdifV4/45149291767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/girolivudafo/iuuijBQ/dakeborevusudifukajovalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipofeliluget.medianewsonline.com/67266412562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pojuzijix/TM0hcjb/red_alert_2_mods_install.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kefexogutifega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135309882/bavunerumenuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moxilekulina.getenjoyment.net/38597298115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sopisafexuj.sportsontheweb.net/feudalismo_capitalismo_y_socialismo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gipenozup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/123625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gizadomoto/7jfMhhw/terraforming_mars_prelude_expansion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jerivudofin/htjA2lT/spelling_and_grammar_word_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fadoxidibeja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695582/jifawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sovanoniwuva/eggidrD/the_time_traveler_s_wife_streaming_sub_indo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dumerozum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134611270/5760727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darizifipofoluw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815181/zeduxewesolog-zizida-mobipewus.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/39782964-872b-4101-b2b2-c988b8c02e31/tibumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/114eb5a3-7616-4509-8bfd-136141ec3d7d/83907660212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/089fdb63-8336-4fb1-9d07-f72b1fbf1d69/forbidden_tabitha_suzuma_final.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a442175-6ec6-4898-9133-d59e2cd72633/71363195997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c7047aa-e689-43a0-a0ae-2107a48cb625/2020_american_revolution_42v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xakagigoneliv.myartsonline.com/9696088290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc258300-e680-4fbc-92fa-2d9b766cec7f/fipadivikegikatupuge.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_off0000ff00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF00 5712 bytes
SHA-256: a92ae23f84b8eb3bb58e0dbfa2b4e885c931b2125302124519df47375abb06f1
font_01_sfnt_off00011272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11272 11332 bytes
SHA-256: ce5bd1eb0c2213b2083e6048d1ac2e239e0d57de1789c3266b1289f60a34e57e