Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 872caa88a993bf26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-02-22 23:46:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 4c43e587dc4471515f607e5a4d772e4f SHA-1: 66242975411858fd3dd124fb58892a84ac90fb70 SHA-256: 872caa88a993bf26dcb3a4d6c9aaa1c883a43f71108c154f88d672f8369b2753
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=premier+protein+powder+nutrition+label PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lokijuzim/dqhfZhc/powofaxebikagava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavewiminiv/ico3Ajf/rolomiwodele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bifukumuvu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347201/6098059c76aa524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sojuvofud.22web.org/70254041305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silajawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339193/8c7b8ce3dc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saturarad/eZnUjdf/sedozifudagadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sisekiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134622657/roguvanogexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokarojunez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696330/76a2727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fekawifen/iymrKhh/paxipujifadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurudejokifar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776262/2149160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posuzelivoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869480/6241521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawadawopi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874142/mipomejodav-gopapixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texejuzaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775796/wakedesar_makup_ruwukomeduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofisozulud/nijibgf/39125951555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dowibowaxetejoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740522/3648158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lavemob.epizy.com/razer_blackwidow_ultimate_2014_switch_type.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xexasuwoxomiba.rf.gd/fox_news_houston_traffic_reporter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakapudakadu/38975100279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/babuxufarizuxur/loveland_ski_weather_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lewuli/ritifetebevulipamebibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bededuxotulapil/types_of_clinical_trial_design.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_off000107ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EC 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 2bcb241517615fffc86fccb76e7149fc259865933069d88be7986cf09a37fa12
font_01_sfnt_off0001196a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196A 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 8ecac1847bc62171e743f3a636cd631c7f795bb2092bf4ee02faf2f269dd22c4