Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 965f418b5e773b92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.0 KB Created: 2021-05-12 07:40:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0acad06f81e94c0e1171250f4067b2e4 SHA-1: b7f51e2369c76755ca8ac06bc6c45bfb988a2dd1 SHA-256: 965f418b5e773b929d92f630d56861e1ab7df83ab132ed14d4d5258a32a38048
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and hosted on services like Strikingly and Weebly, indicating a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure are indicative of a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to serve as a landing page for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=nutrition+in+pregnancy+rcog+guidelines PDF link annotation
    • https://xunowarusaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371630/falovapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajuwepubawip.sportsontheweb.net/88606650922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gexomafe.mypressonline.com/what_is_narrative_essay_slideshare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416504/normal_601f38c5a09ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saniluje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134323688/5662046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regsen.website/8758874122fvayh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmbespaceclient.xyz/engineering_mechanics_dynamics_6th_edition_meriam_kraiger2k03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://midodelawipage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585137/lewasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakupofudeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775354/mefiwun-sowobanuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455639/normal_5fcd32b7db7ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandeepsadyora.com/vezijonupuxefqg0ng.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/3436676f-ae64-4e3f-b496-a5138fd26cbc/what_are_some_thermal_conductors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e3482ce-7453-4a49-a54f-65e05022ff98/93997263600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8e203b4-24c1-4abc-8259-bce6bc349d08/94392608918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ececf0f5-a6a2-4105-96c9-df7f90cf8e48/73862242430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7d5d919-fb4c-4a24-8720-4a0f7a14f053/97677949532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e6aa843-9275-4f37-93d5-3b23d210a2bf/can_you_change_the_battery_in_a_vivofit_jr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bdef5dde-0814-4bdf-aa9a-9a94d2a5ade0/rebibamodosaxopusoxok.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_off0001c963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C963 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 262bfea875b3c2d353ba5cadd7b3a404c4f441c59a6f52ca5b98b1e8deb941ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001db90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DB90 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 5378c3038bcf246b25ad62fb02c482f41d82c9b50b79760f527eb21b7b9f196d