Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83081c679a50545b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-05-07 21:40:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4fc802b982ff3a4d696a956bad123a13 SHA-1: 6d82e80c156ef5799a62cc749efcecaa77f94e38 SHA-256: 83081c679a50545b277f176ef52c9aa98cb532ca192c2b2720f1e0c19ef79a06
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic to various malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+a+ge+front+load+washing+machine', are likely used to redirect users to phishing or malware download pages.

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+a+ge+front+load+washing+machine PDF link annotation
    • http://ecosbor.net/366110876snw6z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chategratis.online/33541868734qih31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juzumefewuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134766708/pakuluzifegotosuguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafe-cok.ru/d_d_3.5_complete_character_sheet_google_docs0i7tp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastnoutservice.ru/toro_snow_blower_repair_servicebcuk3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leopolds.space/49781158848t4y3g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wufikasuruxur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636700/070b2b56fe54b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmaider.com/nasokifatesikapidideno3plhj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busforpay.online/78131400062bzk1o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francobusiness.com/68621407690otwkb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcoin.design/b_cn_ngha_l_gv187j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolobatunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740420/8037992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealica-ordina.site/gitirotexudenezinowe6tadl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lastmarkt.ru/free_able_non_disclosure_agreement_templatecbgce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c245485c-e1a4-4c5a-9a2a-c465a95e53c8.filesusr.com/ugd/25f824_91402d62878e431b995a4bd4713c6bee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0c17d2ad-06a2-4efd-9128-26148cac6670.filesusr.com/ugd/44320b_e5e05a71954b4e86b5348b93e14137da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f872832-4a8c-4a59-a807-82f8008a9a8d/apc_battery_backup_550_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91a92987-3a62-49df-8aa4-fb63dad0603c/gikakadozotonewifixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d45380bd-a93d-4ef2-b2bd-4c7806d1f6db.filesusr.com/ugd/5d2cf3_48749cd170174833a513efd57aef13da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7005144c-6be7-4c46-9751-3907f2313e97/xudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2da70ae-f47e-48d4-ad2b-55aa46e6b3df/1862639825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4ceac43d-3374-4736-8926-b47930641487.filesusr.com/ugd/3b1191_06ab111844f144c98f5e1e211662a570.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f1434f1-bf14-496e-bd38-0b760f1e14e9/44162324773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://55d63786-14d6-44de-84d0-33f1fb383c44.filesusr.com/ugd/45fd81_8c609dcca83248de9655e2e9d309b5ea.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A5 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 850d4365dfaf21aad4b42699b6d713cd7d68bb58f193c3d81faa10ab7241dd0e
font_01_sfnt_off00010735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10735 12560 bytes
SHA-256: 3d5ad1ee828863ce3a2eb21b401be840724dec5f253f1b69a22620ce207b26c5