Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87422f0501044cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 16:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba68f3da8dc332925e2ab2c7381dfac5 SHA-1: c3b2a8b22370d251161948d7bf2fa437759b5882 SHA-256: 87422f0501044cc4574ffd30b2205332e47e23e0b9c4597c7a338c24f2c29ccc
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 or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic and the presence of numerous URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=the+secret+destiny+of+america+quotes PDF link annotation
    • http://jisuvakuwiraza.medianewsonline.com/libros_de_peter_handke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daxonotetil/stv0Agd/gas_prices_in_california_april_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalitizamer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863297/5e08e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dasoxitif/SJBYCAm/bbc_pandemic_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vukefof.22web.org/42111062491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zizenozi/hiidjhn/string._format_javascript_es6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talajudoxuxip.mygamesonline.org/bexowimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/temisexezoda/Rggham9/canterbury_tales_character_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setokanekema.mygamesonline.org/69670655996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozoduxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815828/razipata_sezalodo_vijenepawevagig_rixilapesaxinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitukuruzatag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346955/fupajubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwemipuwev.mypressonline.com/50_shades_of_grey_songs_mp3_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lizubenesowi/jzgcie3/english_to_japanese_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menafemudiwifog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813668/nozeferugizomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xosubowavenu.mypressonline.com/3793871324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuxuzuruguli.mypressonline.com/53661185549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/julexekubaj/hp_designjet_500_plus_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomogaxelako.rf.gd/alter_ego_frances_b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mivokozibu/22956846981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taguloxutenafol.myartsonline.com/releditibeseperajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogosefuvevol.epizy.com/aromaticity_of_heterocyclic_compounds.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C9 5288 bytes
SHA-256: e440bea9482d611fccecb42a479077d6dd69c34d61d232bd07b63ba43c2978bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB96 10496 bytes
SHA-256: e954858f69144e42b764cf95ed91f810df0522be9e911078b2efe47dc46abae4
font_02_sfnt_off00011f97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F97 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378