Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9490ac22f25458b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 18:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f00dc26a04d5e28dfd6c8ed5fc0d1799 SHA-1: 6dc8dfe48875b827ad5d0a6e082480283ef27877 SHA-256: 9490ac22f25458b66d14356d8ee137c12d2a24d5bf8533898bf7deb273210684
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 a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary URLs extracted is 'https://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=catechism+of+the+catholic+church+malayalam+pdf+free+download', which appears to be a lure for users searching for specific content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a potential for redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=catechism+of+the+catholic+church+malayalam+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://gesunujas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509411/9674b85f72c20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485927/normal_5ff53b9c2cce9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesuwigiwojan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134309114/genizixodike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468831/normal_6002e44ce9f06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459467/normal_601c62ce3a304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajorisovobune.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134752278/garavojojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403674/normal_5fe6afc529143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidoporovumo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134506542/3182408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenomoxemobare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136010140/14e263eee6f8283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujurusema.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846640/xojulanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470405/normal_604a5817dd469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d29ca90-1200-4103-af85-b69ccca939d7/50602910406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matajin.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144711402/xixiruzakividoletito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73d97fe9-553a-4f43-b150-c5cdc0cbfea8/the_grizzled_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea99d077-d4a6-4d53-910e-3b6d75c8c60f/xbox_360_controller_not_turning_on_wired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tijigika.pbworks.com/f/jodinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipoziw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144451959/rupivolelubigobotemugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafuxexosaru.pbworks.com/f/86869373513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1dbf4f0-8c4e-47c1-a513-e11653785827/7858915223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9bce80c9-cb2d-4edc-ad8e-b2b07f90cde9/kesizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ea12770-b112-455e-b653-2307ed1fd0e1/how_to_interval_training.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6f51b68-2ff8-41e9-9e8f-6925fc3e0c02/troy_bilt_pony_lawn_tractor_blades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2777e27-fff1-4a52-b16d-63ae376d5aad/best_calorie_tracker_app_2020.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
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A13 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 5660af421c7c696a87cea03beb28450ea28e97497f458e58d15027a688ccb598
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA4 3836 bytes
SHA-256: 8ce0721856c271533770e5a9b577b0b0f6e289def4b13e7f9f242617e8569f81
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4E 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 79dbb3c558068a3a4a6dd03093264f240cb843e68756c14b51b5effce7893096