Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9308bd8ac5bac478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-03-19 00:27:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: e32d34032ea71edb8fed5158eaa0e103 SHA-1: 99d2b0b8ba43b489328b164dfd863eb717a1772c SHA-256: 9308bd8ac5bac4789464dc168d4fd025426ab464d09ef8b1d96afe350effad54
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=baseband+5216+ericsson+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kaxonavi/i9jgjaT/mowemikusulexiweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373997/normal_5fdae18e85944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/molodomo/gdzggUO/46034007764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448750/normal_604e3b8e3f618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419225/normal_5ff32dee282a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kikolibub/8FqOQOk/island_in_the_sun_chords_tabs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fowipovoji/gm94Kge/46302422700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xufojidaju/gwwOiar/bearded_dragon_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mewowoji/hiFvghQ/rafezedaredade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musomojil.mywebcommunity.org/ocean_basket_sushi_menu_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vemudumuxixu/gjaWQ40/nova_launcher_apk_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenerotisa.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_write_a_legal_advice_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378164/normal_603ef83f681df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4b0cdf75-2e42-4830-99f1-bbdbaec3f661.filesusr.com/ugd/891219_5b497216aec94709b557ca4896706134.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3e3188f7-d9e9-48da-9af6-4e6760718ee0.filesusr.com/ugd/4f7562_ea946e39710e45eea56111f75b294f6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6bf4450-5522-42ec-80a7-1e115cfb8ae5/m-audio_fast_track_pro_macos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://56148a0a-83a3-4003-94ff-78d3044b7c00.filesusr.com/ugd/6f5f23_a4ef872d7ed94170aa01ed7562607e5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f210054c-53b2-4ca7-9b33-f3ec9d598279/best_money_market_interest_rates_in_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fecd0c08-032d-4b8b-b26c-6108aca7a00f.filesusr.com/ugd/a87c8b_0ca49fb6588640e5aab294f27f7ebd2e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a581e706-3bf6-41fb-8978-ad4d4077590d.filesusr.com/ugd/afbe6b_91879050cf89467c816bbb06cda2c661.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_off0000cef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF5 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 31158c075ad1f51c70d34cae0232323dd676562073fef92af209ac73b29b6341
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AA 11104 bytes
SHA-256: cf1cd8c168f6fa0920845447b374bcc9ca7d7637bb615e9fc3a3627d12e9eca7