Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f83a3929c43943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

179.4 KB Created: 2021-03-04 14:02:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 1ee1099d736cb2a310767f153e9f4ed3 SHA-1: f0d13fa41c60cad292ad49c47e0cb9d2a36dff2a SHA-256: 88f83a3929c4394364a1d1859371cb1a601a96d643f1b69a97c6f48add49833c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains and link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the malicious intent through a large number of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=famine+affluence+and+morality+peter+singer+analysis PDF link annotation
    • http://meetplafond.xyz/barcode_format_png9v02h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besemafobekilir.22web.org/maths_worksheets_year_1_tes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biwifizad.iblogger.org/my_cbse_guide_class_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxelejabojafe.scienceontheweb.net/15552378296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dovewobojeb/gebPmsB/smartsheet_apply_formula_to_entire_column.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juwememuju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134523402/2651274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowanenutik.mypressonline.com/mopibojeviwasedonarebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pizavanaxuvilu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135386491/9153055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabirajozef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740353/3381156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iqecoportal.ru/formation_assistant_chef_de_projet_informatique419g5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pexawegowe.mywebcommunity.org/reflexive_verbs_spanish_worksheet_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/voxedijudibo/ds4BHhd/free_speech_bubbles_vector.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusaxufar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135327992/kojora-kixas-gesasa-lobeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://complect-tech.ru/55783058273dejlg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gejudoxe.mypressonline.com/69387098501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagasudinabasow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325797/zufidaboxexofi_saxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pojuparupexafu.epizy.com/75690230381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfbb7726-dcb8-4334-92b7-73ab8d21b6b6/pilot_a_one_english_grammar_7th_class.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a467bc9-da66-46eb-b805-b06382f20e16/polaris_3900_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1b3f073-00dc-4254-b9d6-7bc93e24b56d/fineranilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71730a96-4aac-4465-815a-0f496cdf7e08/zitisixawizudupipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b57ccda-2288-4ed8-84d1-67c4735f0c8f/soriwajibugidenilokobudog.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_off0002820a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2820A 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 5197b36d7cc54f50a19bd2042a0fff305cebbc7ba6dbe50bebed3484e461def9
font_01_sfnt_off000294d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x294D4 13164 bytes
SHA-256: 35106cfd47dc48aca7e61f0088392dba80b2a46fadca4bf09deb6692ecb867c0