Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96541c8439874356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-17 17:31:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 88c9e7dcea9ddaafa853a02ef56ebb70 SHA-1: 66ea69fdcb95096198c3c0944500ac929bcfd6ef SHA-256: 96541c843987435608d30580a1bc873723af0ded1caeefdb831421ba12317978
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a lure related to exercise bikes, directing users to a suspicious URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the overall detection profile indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+do+hiit+on+exercise+bike PDF link annotation
    • http://peregukejipesa.iblogger.org/gefomixifulevodenopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisamifogafize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598642/jonezisumegi_reripikixukato_sutejem_kokobejafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazejajogavu.medianewsonline.com/is_the_equity_market_open_on_columbus_day.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sutazojawote/UjejEge/fuel_up_to_win_2020_winners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jalotenabo/w7ggjDd/xanaselalabekuwagolotifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasekafalig.scienceontheweb.net/99719730274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nimabugokofa/wijMpic/53956197125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suwadebizon.mywebcommunity.org/fixizuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/revogonesox/jhYgjji/12163003731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tujijamutibe.sportsontheweb.net/wijozupuxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defelewag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741475/rugujonidifilenutada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junobinedutuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712306/dilusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vixadabunukup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902839/d30e0008b4095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wijanotunam/WuqhjQw/all_subway_surfers_characters_2020.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/b85e7f63-b849-47aa-92be-c7af46e5fdcd/boxawawofifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e0ff2378-281a-4ea3-95ae-419c526fdc99.filesusr.com/ugd/0baf77_7885663d9e8b4b67b6ecd1464ff664f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0cd6b7c-d913-465f-a3b6-bc72d832cbfe/kexiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_618eeaf8239c48419f9358d01af4ab9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebd73b9a-b255-48a5-b781-2bd84b483b4c.filesusr.com/ugd/956c05_dcabcfaa4a63413584049fcba79ed8de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gajopule.myartsonline.com/mary_poppins_returns_cast_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/455e5904-8345-45de-a32e-68e75d303283/46415914925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e068061-b882-4339-8f1f-98e7cbc3e1dd/hp_officejet_pro_8500_change_ink_cartridge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bejuzijufure.rf.gd/vitosakutefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovebar.rf.gd/how_to_finance_building_a_home.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01ce1356-f27e-4400-bc59-0396bef9f17e/viper_3305v_alarm.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_off0000f013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF013 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 6d52e0819000ebdb83490d1d3174ef3eaedc8dede4939e0f1acbf4f1850ca0fa
font_01_sfnt_off0001017f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017F 10644 bytes
SHA-256: a9db94fe09cc94bfbb5e3b89ee2c7e48ed6d033d07c56d5d37761c9ce760adf7