Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e511caa09eb82c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-03-14 15:10:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 009b0843eb18068a18e5e30afa23cc83 SHA-1: 1cf22f8334cf07c2230595adca656b0f822628f4 SHA-256: 7e511caa09eb82c88f5912233a0241c810679c456440829add6ed485943f68e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links, and one of the embedded URLs, 'https://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=hp+kinnaur+nigulsari+weather+report', is flagged as suspicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a weather report, serving as a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=hp+kinnaur+nigulsari+weather+report PDF link annotation
    • http://berasowugixo.mywebcommunity.org/social_and_personality_development_an_advanced_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pesale.pro/finatajozepep3vj04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farunoraxukiz.getenjoyment.net/kotudaxawelazaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vehicleusains.com/how_to_download_final_cut_pro_7_for_free_macctyv1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogijowop.sportsontheweb.net/suselav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufoferapavinew.medianewsonline.com/how_to_setup_netgear_wnr1000_as_a_repeater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyebrowthreadingdallastx.com/65428772766hrsww.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautytopshop.site/schoolsparks_kindergarten_worksheets_category_thanksgiving_mathsud03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dithetsen.xyz/learning_processing_freegqufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajazenizur.mywebcommunity.org/androgenos_suprarrenales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://ecfc1f44-6648-4072-bff5-6ee4adcfbe4f.filesusr.com/ugd/e5a943_86b700947da5405c82f548329e51847c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3a4c9ca-9651-46db-9c58-5403a6d0ee8c/how_do_i_fix_my_canon_scanner_error.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c5c27394-2042-4749-9b39-d1c24dcbd9f0.filesusr.com/ugd/e9b987_8de8ae3690964f179021a55d9c61a454.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e975e109-42e6-40a7-8f5f-4fb0355c6613/lidoxevobazuzujatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8b2103c5-345b-48fd-98e3-f19c90c4efd0.filesusr.com/ugd/0e2875_9d5ed1ec21a041209094fc86a8b7ae9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c1ab63b4-4781-4901-abeb-f581ed41d26f.filesusr.com/ugd/b44917_0635533a20444dfdac631a7531b83b73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f16ccac6-fc73-4aa1-b50d-66d16e5096fb/light_novel_konosuba_vol_12_sub_indo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ad0d0dbb-669b-46a9-85df-79487014a0f3.filesusr.com/ugd/00d95d_edf291a220e5481dbd558d37e30c7b21.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e072c831-4640-4f25-9507-3b4474b1a712/63780145040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vexabimumemig.atwebpages.com/jufitodonufexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litorow.myartsonline.com/troubleshooting_kenmore_600_series_washer.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E1 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 9f0e6765b1b9df96dd54d95c8f43f2ecadcf79bad04e494285480a83b791acf3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f52a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52A 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 0e64b7025738239eb3600276d639c161119927c0ac30414c10a4ee1f0e0b8d1a
font_02_sfnt_off000118d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378