Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869e937590825380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-03-16 08:12:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: cbd2fb11ad873a2e611355a2a3db2643 SHA-1: a143b7f2a027c108d4f4f2edd8992d987a943d26 SHA-256: 869e937590825380d3afc4848a74fd2740aeda1b91ad67238659fb930b9235a5
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. ClamAV also detected this as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of many external URLs and the lure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=social+media+marketing+tools+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://curvepreloved.com/nirebimejedigajumavinascv41r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nesujuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407687/6475043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-news.tech/39508296784vl79b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemapefim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134485651/5038325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pugisapi.mypressonline.com/elementary_linear_algebra_10th_edition_solutions_slader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealsit.fun/mitigakiputorebidopf4il.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vopesowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134638419/gofutukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuwezamubom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814902/lakisaxa_tojikimefogiwen_xakef_kelovikega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxewezadopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017906/2552a86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lajodibibodi.getenjoyment.net/22037913456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ludshop.xyz/grand_stickman_rope_hero_adventure_mapsuxw7d.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/ddfc74ee-8e21-45f3-8795-f6960289491f/30085406269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xijuxosisomuna/fekatudedufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6ba7316d-b84b-4ccb-a32a-103c856d4013.filesusr.com/ugd/91f37e_9599e1b9cd5a4e9fa1fe888f7a260c3a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3e1ae61b-6b68-46dc-8a90-d1c7a5b9f91c.filesusr.com/ugd/b8bbd7_127cdd89573d47469c1f2920b79f9a75.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://manuwakagekewu.onlinewebshop.net/kemitekaziraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://48e4e0df-78ce-4736-8797-27735e68dc67.filesusr.com/ugd/f3b179_2795ec9f10c74c299c615c9d762ca24d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://23da7c74-6e14-424a-b22a-901aa35eafb1.filesusr.com/ugd/9cc572_1f12d1ce7b6e4c3a9c5b00c9733c2269.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1185f0f9-23a1-4def-8814-d9b9b682ba45/what_does_the_elephant_represent_in_shooting_an_elephant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tamobalasu/amritvani_audio_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc667f89-d162-4f81-85ca-a680a5133ddc/zukimupefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zibenoroduzuw/difference_between_android_and_ios_camera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pigolo/xitobeguzuzivolunaxefaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23ae266a-757f-4de1-b588-b6a0dcdb699d/79626338804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6d3a1c5-32ce-46e9-ae92-c5b8d84d65d9.filesusr.com/ugd/a3b54b_baab163184c64abdb78d9e6a727bdb17.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_off000124ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124AD 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 45d5ee296902519548888609cf2e5b72b2e646e2f7972747c73e8fa025949655
font_01_sfnt_off000137ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CE 12024 bytes
SHA-256: bc639a38761f09d63fa163242ee69a774c00c34b793e8c406d939d0ec85626fb