Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878b370c98fb4400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2021-03-21 12:03:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8bf3e113008252aedb23279f77a00c6e SHA-1: 3244139679ba68747ecced9aa4bb50faea14ca73 SHA-256: 878b370c98fb4400bdacd5b463599ed65417b42375abe1afabdc89b3090072a1
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'vocabulary worksheets 3rd grade pdf'. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8574

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • 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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=vocabulary+worksheets+3rd+grade+pdf
    • http://gimatadokij.mygamesonline.org/75654293514.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445558/normal_5ffdd0e234b59.pdf
    • https://rogapunuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375427/boxosot.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383579/normal_5fe893023ad47.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404730/normal_5ff69aa5aa570.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374189/normal_603fef1d67176.pdf
    • https://mowuvesetotodoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969800/fc6ef1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://fc06435f-e709-4c80-b59d-96fa470c1a13.filesusr.com/ugd/bdc04d_1ed0d4662af94d3896d0d4beaeedf7ec.pdf?index=true
    • http://vajapojaperusu.myartsonline.com/92617089951.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zarevizebi/36422721346.pdf
    • https://c216880a-03a2-4774-ab7e-121c93799e8f.filesusr.com/ugd/b5aed9_40d8cc860ea64e739edab6f60b7573c4.pdf?index=true
    • https://3ff4c494-4984-418a-b709-7a5c611cca0a.filesusr.com/ugd/adbee0_31557e1a4d5249cf9df0a7f54806f17c.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/miwolezedubujoz/7181270792.pdf
    • https://de7eff9d-5c50-4122-bb99-ee112abf7a8f.filesusr.com/ugd/db8f21_fb226257b3a640cdafa78050db3872c2.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39aeda9b-f34c-4f0b-a59c-ca4ab2fe212d/jesevisapalotete.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/10b0c648-63d7-446f-8d22-d14ce08a48c5/kapimekuxideludoxemeteg.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdb4accb-3f9e-4f7e-81c0-fff17d56fc5e/satorekalepa.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e362.bin
d6100b86444e6343895386ebaeeefdd1e23a0ef8af55922976dac2033cca1245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE362 5672 bytes