Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82c3e40175539b41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-11 06:05:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2594d5d5214e3bd8fddd25a8aa8f102d SHA-1: e67755141a4511e17ba35640ba4db54b572cc1a5 SHA-256: 82c3e40175539b41c1c1af32c97bc8b316f54c097b8b7ccceeb08ee20caded38
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF files on disposable or SEO-focused domains, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=dymo+label+not+printing+landscape PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noperizapewo/8igjjj9/spell_pencil_case_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jupozaregu/gBvshdH/virus_the_game_adenoids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gapobuzijiru/cUKjjAP/tri_ominos_game_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruvogodozipabiv.scienceontheweb.net/bosch_spark_plugs_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boguzimaro.getenjoyment.net/tuzeguziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/hbibhgc/87528995614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refazali.mygamesonline.org/fomubigegexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mepapogivoma/9gighgc/deninapubagenivetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kafujaguvo.mygamesonline.org/fubowurumokonokizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tikolikenugim.epizy.com/dejopipimubunujitedosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzolegogi.atwebpages.com/gutubesupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wukofufo.rf.gd/refovananafazugipuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9e2b3e3a-6a02-4d3b-8ba9-5acc01041672.filesusr.com/ugd/66c878_26d5312a407f4d0885dbf414020c3fe1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91e55214-10ad-44cf-a10a-60a9392df58b.filesusr.com/ugd/e1c37d_9c9a59498daa4440abaadc1d7f1a709f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb47f074-0476-4434-b381-5672a365cab8.filesusr.com/ugd/c46c8a_c8676a95664c40b3aeda57d039d426ff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kifesafijupesob.onlinewebshop.net/risk_assessment_report_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mekasesajiw.onlinewebshop.net/html_to_python_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6baea7ca-81e4-4a11-8410-716433a99462.filesusr.com/ugd/764aaa_a9d65e4419a84a1c9add5ad8caeba28d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e079b21-6cfc-4bbc-a8af-001f4930a7f2.filesusr.com/ugd/f66805_67673fef2f5348a598a13be89eb1e2d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a4758657-6aaa-4003-b0f6-1957e800abfd.filesusr.com/ugd/70c1f8_ecc7192d3b944961b34f25fcfbee3329.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b8f7bc2e-5f90-466c-a76c-b8215bfdb3ae.filesusr.com/ugd/9717d9_87519261d5014ddfb811f4ade89a4426.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tupazovux.epizy.com/hepatitis_c_aasld_guidelines_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokisub.rf.gd/80289382881.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_off0000e12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12B 5632 bytes
SHA-256: c6fa786df38ab42af5133ee1561251b20b21773cb6aa13ca1677a7465dac49b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF445 11608 bytes
SHA-256: 29beabe243ad56e770416c11914c560b91b379a4134a3ce23efb69466e7b3e48