Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9379bfd4f59c5f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-03-06 17:47:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: b9015c4967394d78ce13f6e8779a76ef SHA-1: 7c25a970b1fd68e72da21eef2180eb380b8862af SHA-256: 9379bfd4f59c5f611d7442266c06d772088fcc28048b00ca3d58c0e524c54893
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, with many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One embedded URI points to 'fokemale.ru', which is suspicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, potentially used for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://fokemale.ru/award?keyword=the+chronicles+of+narnia+the+lion+the+witch+and+the+wardrobe+cast+1988 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369158/normal_5fdc4a1dd07ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connexion-amelii.xyz/dan_simmons_hyperion_charactersz1i9x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taninuto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633468/6145041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medinezelegas.iblogger.org/the_road_less_travelled_free_ebook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pribor-poverka.site/avengers_4_trailer_mp4_hdobj3j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukels.xyz/10679030694xeqkh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nukawopuriw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347541/bf76c9c3f82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422631/normal_6015bc560f5cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonedomopoja.scienceontheweb.net/baby_bjorn_bouncer_weight_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfcrabota.ru/guided_imagery_scriptskaswe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391624/normal_602f9f9e00130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476147/normal_5ffd17b728840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokukuke.mypressonline.com/vw_customer_service_cardiff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolilugufup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776220/solixamuwezarol-nemuzewimabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcasino.info/5918196703847v40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392220/normal_6012dba52bb86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gukamixi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042495/9042023.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/276c4649-23f2-467f-b954-59ff5ccb5eb4/how_to_measure_performance_of_a_company.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7edc011b-1dc5-410e-ba21-c112c6bf82c4/how_to_unscrew_tight_lids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2bef4e6c-d77c-4aab-af26-eb01029a711d/donusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rexojapabafim.rf.gd/spanish_grammar_book_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ead0c5db-a66c-45ed-9679-a0cbe658b702/35318335352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97e7c5ff-65ae-4ba1-80d8-6b68ebc8ab63/mipeluwiwowuzenukugonoxa.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_off00014ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CA2 5692 bytes
SHA-256: c15cea809c945cd9165a019f3168569e745144f0e7860bfa81c8decff7fb566d
font_01_sfnt_off00016007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16007 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ab2ef582080264b98c8f2ce13edc6f50f590d965b37410625ba63630dcb52c9f