Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aaa245f80f2347a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-03-07 03:43:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 311f7d3f2a802ee9ca5e101a6eab6cdd SHA-1: c410dbecc95e91f8815a1fba6a4dfed6d5d22d99 SHA-256: 7aaa245f80f2347ad52e49b99c05f2fd53fbe105bd9339948417fa3a86d93e9d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to cleaning a whirlpool dishwasher, which is likely a lure to direct users to malicious URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+clean+the+trap+in+a+whirlpool+dishwasher PDF link annotation
    • https://wavasifowimuzog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135321241/4834946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizuxikeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740292/9e30929233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woxogobigevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814596/8193493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xogubopuvemaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134768150/bifik-pisarutasez-gedagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunavomotuta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134606544/xusisulijipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peniwifagupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/8823525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemavejikokawi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303077/29bcb0d3de4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410674/normal_5fe4d74a51b02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binazinir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108718/diruwinapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wutusubefesuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961291/aaea1d7e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410207/normal_5fc842da1377b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417824/normal_603f92c8f32ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481059/normal_60232f7a37eb0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ximupuv/49948842141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dddbaada-c27d-4182-917d-f3249694964a/speed_velocity_and_acceleration_calculations_practice_2_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff5857af-3baf-4349-ad95-265721efcd32/72445348490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47d81c9b-57fe-4abb-9c47-3da4a818ed36/gajazajixepuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/suzixegazunow/podalijitegotitave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivamubug/free_uc_browser_10._5_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vatosolikijike/rifepukunogonokulinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdda25b3-5ea1-4b59-b312-86cba884fa31/17067921403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavale/tawewovefirijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a9b600a-bdcf-43ce-bd98-abdb8ec9923b/tv_samsung_ue_55_js8500.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_off0000f5e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E5 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 81fa0ff767f36afe337fc7dbf56c64131a5e46e07f0e0f1479a67651a8bdffa4
font_01_sfnt_off000107a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A7 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 6061e384b3ed24236ecb0d0e7158a5518863c0dfbb7cd516b1f8117b74d4e70c