Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84e0b4212572ad36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2021-06-06 02:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 78ca0af7d31cb2ecf7f1e391a70bbe41 SHA-1: aa5801f34842411f1963cf9a43aa759b8634be3c SHA-256: 84e0b4212572ad36e3052417d167b209391bcf4a38fa66ea4ea8daf26acf8ed0
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of a PDF link farm point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=energy+transfer+worksheets+for+grade+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://wodekatim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405934/4279735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiwotatuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856308/cd7e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379034/normal_60501925519c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424364/normal_5ffd08f417109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebopugosoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346619/kezesuj_zovigafowiwo_gutamigapokelu_bufowibusetibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413843/normal_60bbffa680c1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimuzomidaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353295/xotutovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojumawi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589932/3123f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zesijijonade.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776416/a4c4afafcf3c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365567/normal_6033d01927cad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401723/normal_60146c86f277b.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/9873dcbf-b957-4024-88dd-e4d0e08b4daf/dgme_employee_login_account_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4bd18f1-c461-4a55-90db-bc8aab23b9e8/literary_theory_and_criticism_an_oxford_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5dfe0ef0-c2c5-4a0d-ac81-94959c41d8a0/how_to_carry_trekking_pole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c77e1790-d521-4ef5-a009-7ae6d64c0e38/the_hunger_games_quotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuwuziz.pbworks.com/f/did_thirteen_die_in_my_hero_academia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2182db56-3c9a-4a0e-bb85-53c8f9f53771/focusrite_scarlett_2i2_driver_win_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b37cd838-d204-42c5-aab2-07ddc8854d49/fujitsu_scansnap_s1500_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tedadopite.pbworks.com/f/tazuzixotakosesodekip.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_off00016af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AF2 5432 bytes
SHA-256: b4bf710c4760e23d8ad30721a1bff48d515434da9bb08be44e9955b8c47f562e
font_01_sfnt_off00017d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D8D 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 57254b06f8f9f59696cf383a8c5b81ae46410890b536b6129f441ea672593a86