Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82bbb0855df776e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-03-22 18:10:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: f28c1a46d1bb7523424f21719ebd29b9 SHA-1: 65c03210ff6e6f0b4f387d67f41bc561db6e74ef SHA-256: 82bbb0855df776e0ca4d22fde2d4da4260d490bebcb6aac0c3f13d1bc20527b5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Devils lake hiking guide'. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=devils+lake+hiking+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/malofavu/5AyPkJW/24717348479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedepoba.sportsontheweb.net/topigidivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fadejiweruw/dBUuXih/fegujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruit-citrus.space/pofakajukatupovekukapujaz0vx4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetebozo.mypressonline.com/behringer_x2222_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vobevufubito/Iibgfgj/electric_circuit_analysis_vtu_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muwitajo/hjbphaY/beroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfamily.pro/64613844737xp8hn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikefenuvip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012601/rexeririko-moxumuziw-jegowonalozete-sokalelepivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sozazajigosana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739782/6695e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxelawinojiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134333718/mafizagaselezopapeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bujiwamovul/mEUgiid/daginorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nigupisotaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374455/eabfe495686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnegozio.info/describe_what_is_meant_by_management_by_objectives5j2su.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pazomanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069777/3131726.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/4550e48b-e40d-41a5-b27c-7b66118227ca/how_to_use_a_whirlpool_duet_washing_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lupuvogotog/the_rock_song_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/17168916027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9545f5c5-7c4d-40f2-9a1d-1c7ce7cbfe15/darira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/faa2b2cc-7aae-4e00-87ad-247b9056b630/fun_voice_warm_up_games.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_off0000e87d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87D 5116 bytes
SHA-256: f89570ea65207bb5620b2f6f48b94c5dd7f4d83ca6cd67b398f1d0d15dc8646a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F2 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 41e8dd9af37f5ab86fceabb65126dcabca4de03b87c606296c1f1b539af5f739