Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc9c69fa1f24831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-04-03 14:23:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9bf1597baae6f5d257beddcb8b1b3a01 SHA-1: a29d61b6b870005a8dfc154eb24f3785c8b6670e SHA-256: 8dc9c69fa1f2483143334c36eeda5b35b135e4479c58344d2816a4546a73ba10
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to facilitate the redirection to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=air+force+academy+football+roster+1992 PDF link annotation
    • https://sexomimafu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311134/8d8f9635a6c95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fomimelagesuto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406840/6593984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruxovesubilesuk.22web.org/71182383619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tujozidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694944/vosorejopedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xibipumazanepir.iblogger.org/mawalobuweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojazikur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135960276/movagimonopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ramazupefedaze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135336263/3687937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puponefunojubuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134670615/bimofigeneruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c0b8f06b-4e98-4d3d-89ef-2f08caba629a.filesusr.com/ugd/0c8cc8_6873c37bc82b457e8ba8aa8d149db1b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5d16c6f-b542-4adb-9964-3a47182c067e/how_many_earthquakes_are_normal_per_year.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d15bf852-b3c8-4b93-9195-c27d7959f7e1/jikulajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelagipu.rf.gd/kinagedobuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/128267a3-e3de-4f4c-8d69-6c4a5a7dffe7/64639614652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04826afa-7649-40f2-a1a6-66a550f470ca/hoover_max_extract_carpet_cleaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/333ed22f-e62e-4bec-bc7e-5a2676afe092/15652080308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f58a6d3-5723-489e-a2bd-17fd91e1ddd5.filesusr.com/ugd/655495_bdf89715cd2a4bc6a56939edcc383d6f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fd72b2a-e647-40d0-b58b-d3022cd6255a/lupuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5b46e9b-a92f-4148-80bd-c463b40c5f8b/17845341339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerosopidazab.rf.gd/copy_sheet_trong_excel_vba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f9c81679-ddb1-4746-ab40-32673edc426c.filesusr.com/ugd/2eff39_a0cbfe985bfa497ea88d552fa4ac6517.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bea278a-8734-40e0-8574-7bda1f9fed46/93653103435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0db90532-8c79-4760-bf11-b46a9004f71c.filesusr.com/ugd/3254bf_5f5b0a41d81e4ecab32272ffb171672b.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_off0000ec6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6B 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 1d202257dad5d0e240dc73974b93507745a74d9de26dd4809192aa0636e996ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE9 11080 bytes
SHA-256: de9c1b10172fdfbec7498d5ca674beaec28879529cb0f157fe93bb72b3979864