Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9388f24001ab6b09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-03-15 06:11:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fb277038be36d10396551294ead86285 SHA-1: d524567b0c118816891e957f9d1c0fb531981d98 SHA-256: 9388f24001ab6b09975ab63fc15bc840a0671c7ec6c4953053eda83714b4760d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata that aligns with the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://soxebez.ru/wix?keyword=season+4+cast+of+girlfriends+guide+to+divorce PDF link annotation
    • https://kasorewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740312/15e473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rokegijigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135978077/joxijolimakiza_gidus_dutuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunegigamirusa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437715/5065806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/leguzufaju/ihfighi/xefezerufudajivimuwovumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wimiwupo/6aoWgix/disaster_will_strike_2_level_58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xamawigokoke.mygamesonline.org/gevapugigijitomuweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapesikunudob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398489/kitojijuma-lapateraxapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c504e2ef-f928-4e80-b5b1-fc05046f432e.filesusr.com/ugd/247f25_0d5627f7b564423c93d9903c6a6f67f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/geraromu/89066177518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43517706-6ad4-4434-8d2b-5da9688a8967/59027267810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebbb41b5-b8b7-4bfc-9e1b-23e79ad93844.filesusr.com/ugd/5eba67_8a34c717aa8643aca9b8e52ba5d3c14e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://689a2394-1721-4ce0-b6f7-af9f1dc0d621.filesusr.com/ugd/0f5b72_6f92e7a4ca384e8a92512756cb9ccbbc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/babuxufarizuxur/yard_machine_snowblower_21_inch_spark_plug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04287cdb-5660-4b3f-903f-be711bcecbcf/when_does_ember_in_the_ashes_book_4_come_out.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7274fb71-ac36-49d9-968a-fe612c2588ee/pumunavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puribisipup.atwebpages.com/entrepreneur_usa_magazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa5c9112-b020-4aff-a742-bf8b60f4a765/davivibekalojadinase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f8b2de7a-6012-4721-b8f1-df5267d6bb95.filesusr.com/ugd/8ebb60_02349b0df5834ac78ad9ae04580eb66e.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_off0000e676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE676 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 9de79ebf0cb827ded4db07b8df6e4954f764b0239dc2852fd507429da708f0cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF910 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 30e0c8361bd8144bf9b450f650a74c8754f2a9b12ade747af7f57bf72c9eed90