Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8401708ae134402a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB Created: 2021-04-01 00:56:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0a0ed01c931412fbf8f790b8200a5f37 SHA-1: 5e8b315a9b9f32e5c464201cb6438872cc0d6131 SHA-256: 8401708ae134402ace42b85bd8492dce05503107adbc6343e4cf2d1820edd772
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=brothers+grimm+cinderella+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xekigumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776031/rejedutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460686/normal_604d6bd1c4561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383334/normal_5fee3736a8d78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raguvigawak.mypressonline.com/whirlpool_cabrio_clicks_but_wont_start.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422908/normal_603fb6ca51411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413468/normal_60278e82ab6ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxexemap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890763/7397495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kesadoxiluxar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135974677/af4733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabejopow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597712/81341aecd4ca5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupafenanibud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042845/a7d26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazitilifa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131414561/b0492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378855/normal_6056fddc73db6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedomagisuw.getenjoyment.net/gmat_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukimeremunosav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379236/63c507c5f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaxozugine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303195/gekegupalaxuligasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moduruwili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710657/wokesilolavele_soledinida_tetenezizino.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/d42c8050-343a-4176-a936-9159e01ad833/how_to_expand_a_dress_without_sewing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ca6b24e6-01cd-4368-a310-1df05077a315.filesusr.com/ugd/11b39a_998793c825ac41d680cba981096d6f9c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f79c4d19-9b07-4ca9-ba82-4f938217db57.filesusr.com/ugd/c0d3e8_9814ad0b5d23491b99aff2d92458e072.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8f20b4bd-83f7-4a55-8c6f-e9501e2e061c.filesusr.com/ugd/c1c462_9cbe4a4ad319492183efa5fb196410bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_3e313dad1b054fe68055e7c7e0b01c88.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d271e17b-e5e8-4bc7-aee9-c6fa01e5482d/12732452924.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_off00018e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E58 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 8a741ee1244834fedf38e993ee1a8638e680fb4e31e82ad4261d7082a760ac59
font_01_sfnt_off0001a14c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A14C 14692 bytes
SHA-256: 6a907da4fe23f610e9d0e6f61275129fd0c52efa3541c4927393f23ea6001c63