Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7914b0c934ad81f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-03-05 16:11:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2746a2fae48f3c283596acad27ea8884 SHA-1: 265a41ab6e9a0fee375da74d7b0f039019fe4660 SHA-256: 7914b0c934ad81f5ed66537448a061a0a9018269ae54d4e725c6c35bb4019d8e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The primary URL, druttle.ru, is suspicious and likely part of the malicious infrastructure.

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=principales+caracteristicas+de+los+modos+de+produccion+capitalista PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413967/normal_602b23cb2b7d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368226/normal_5fe0775b77b8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sadirorig/KhaGig0/16411313376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizazegixewaner.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596748/6629727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luzenage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317967/3b3a292f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bedazume/5Q6Eje1/cut_and_paint_mod_apk_revdl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagikopegufiza.66ghz.com/chicago_park_district_inspector_general_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodiniwotud/h9jg8je/run_the_mountain_down_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413978/normal_60353f34379ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobujiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070874/xosisodo-salenadojis-nepibigidoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470537/normal_5fe820428873f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wepunajexiju/ajfjiy8/fejurororanokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481821/normal_60327598d55b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidexozi.22web.org/what_was_the_cost_of_living_in_2018.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/807417a0-43c3-4c72-8e95-1982f79d5864/13139813275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f444c600-8f12-4065-a53e-e0158a8b10ba/70962479412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73989064-fe75-43f7-966c-6ba3b24052f4/windows_10_free_upgrade_2019_legal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ed0dab6-cdfd-4601-bf5d-e0d0ab83d347/how_loud_is_a_honda_7000_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd67d486-8aa4-48fb-a003-52eb4a66f673/how_to_draw_a_balloon_realistic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5041021-7a5c-4852-8df5-bec6b09c5ebb/jaligukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7ed980f-cdc7-41eb-b007-86ef2af4809f/51422128052.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_off0000ea50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA50 5220 bytes
SHA-256: c872c49d4b8995266bd3abd04af606ecbe7421c766a12295101064864a12285d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF8 11540 bytes
SHA-256: c9bb8997ac3ff1599b17b45da542f45db7442e6daea1cdb4218ba0a529955f95