Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab48938f3dada4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-04-19 17:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ca7f4ffe5e8fb17134583abbb6ff3929 SHA-1: 28f88b1a9ad2e6986a25e5be408c79c10f68d05b SHA-256: 8ab48938f3dada4a206d1941d4e47708297aca1cbab8983cae0cb79225ad2e19
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 pointing to other PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URL 'https://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=ap+seminar+irr+topics' is a primary indicator of a malicious redirect or landing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=ap+seminar+irr+topics PDF link annotation
    • http://apkweb.net/what_is_an_extended_metaphorqpwa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://callipakk2.site/sony_alpha_350_user_manual6okt0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotringel.shop/defects_in_brick_masonryx1h9v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365570/normal_5fd718a6520f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369909/normal_601d82e490c25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464874/normal_6042e0dc7b237.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/33fc4782-4e31-4932-a4e5-fc5c5084252e/how_to_get_trade_options_button_on_robinhood.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://51bf459c-6b46-41b0-863f-532cf8a77e0d.filesusr.com/ugd/2eedf1_45dee77997ed4b0794eb5dcbbbc3e485.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/warapagefasovi/risk_control_matrix_template_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3c8197b3-f999-4f29-b3da-fbdfea3dbf34.filesusr.com/ugd/0047a4_47143eed5afb474cb7b51a45ea9eba23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb71deac-5427-4a11-aec2-6feec017c243.filesusr.com/ugd/4cd983_37702e7d62474e2391fd5a351d3ede52.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c9977776-9e37-4432-9eae-e541147807da.filesusr.com/ugd/bb6cc6_d2a06d29f14742448b7677840a3e6072.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dezajok/43392874608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8eb0ff2f-1b5f-41fb-a82b-bf279dc7f43e.filesusr.com/ugd/868f76_00f02b76b8a1473caf6aa391f0eb80d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0bef8565-087b-457a-960c-b0529baba50c.filesusr.com/ugd/638000_f7fb4c95c4804a3794aca8f4fa92d63a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab0a25ae-a1b0-42e7-8566-6ceca1337268/bell_hooks_all_about_love_audiobook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropuba/zopomewuguxujipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulozor/aarariraro_song_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sulasatevirexo/how_can_locating_the_main_idea_and_supporting_details_reveal_my_comprehension_of_a_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://73af689e-4c80-4f62-99d3-7a886641ad81.filesusr.com/ugd/3b5dd9_7a81c4dba3b34a64810166008257569c.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_off0000f284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF284 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 677ff69e48bf7c5fc2a61f6afa2e3a7b7cff34ca14960a0701e74132a1602f9f
font_01_sfnt_off00010389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10389 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 58a0d00dfa68579732f4d595c3973a45b1d67f5e6868aa3e2ee8c72b8842b55c