Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8edd93fa3d33a2f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-02-20 19:45:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: be88a17bf4162528adf31c6937ce9007 SHA-1: ecf80c616ee56209d65c80b9c82ad9cf53495a24 SHA-256: 8edd93fa3d33a2f2371e97388014ebc4a7cce14f6d7b29699d0fe75905fd2b9c
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploit activity within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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/123?utm_term=how+to+set+time+on+fleck+water+softener PDF link annotation
    • https://dufowazana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529111/1f948827dcec1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vumazara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738753/zavapamatalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagawilikazukir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070307/e4dd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tumowara/6WF9eXk/nitro_rc_cars_for_sale_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujekesire/Aia5jea/xaweredimatibavuvuxetafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bidekidarub/bsWshhx/83342284835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rabovafom/ghjjeif/music_equalizer_bass_boost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kavonalitego/d1I0jib/tagakufagituzonilakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vabalogu/hf3vzVd/momarapopiwuxixapero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagejenaxupiwig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134383440/b489afcf76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kifuzopeko/ieKhahj/giant_robot_alien_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mudinaxape/QpBjfXO/jomopalurarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/piwixesiwufo/hibgfAU/91417819583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xemugugafot/ViejjGM/boomerang_movie_watch_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vafodagusun/RhahAjg/5th_grade_learning_games_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwebafifike.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885554/650827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukoxisojow/62488519585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kasuwevovog/parts_of_manual_bp_cuff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litaxuroba.rf.gd/wisevaduwefepemapiwivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janepalefudu.epizy.com/ajay_devgan_songs_ming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duloduxu.epizy.com/tomerenawimijitisibizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/divexikav/anaconda_windows_32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavale/49079668374.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_off0000e2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E8 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba3486731e563026350db0c0b5e97b3ab6c9b907f533fc43969abe4b67f6c95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF460 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 64b155bf39508e1c50703a5f62f94cf11ac8a7fe0a13ca777fc209ba23259b3e