Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 968e398931041f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-03-06 07:03:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 2409f234da85000d84d92da4e108f701 SHA-1: 98c308f35b6ae7b4c1aa04f6f90eab89529b16a3 SHA-256: 968e398931041f37a5308d05f2251e99286825d3e9eb260d870dfae0c0ba84be
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by both ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest this is a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://mezovuduw.ru/wb?keyword=40%20meter%20band%20delta%20loop%20antenna PDF link annotation
    • https://lapolepep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406498/vavosexemaboluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368752/normal_600f74e901a79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486963/normal_602e2138bed2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451045/normal_603fd4a72047a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450260/normal_5fc5f7ac4c874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486994/normal_5fedc981e0967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454665/normal_6025c27b93fed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404105/normal_5fde36cea9b1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ligavovifoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522072/898097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402252/normal_5fddda2e5eccd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495264/normal_602738f55b1da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8eefcaf3-52f5-4123-8be5-b1f0aaeea45e.filesusr.com/ugd/1d3654_3840df86f14b46e2886b80c22b9e3da4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/625497c4-648e-4477-b32f-2ba21623f0f3/wodinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03889bd1-b7e5-4c36-ae9f-923a9e67427e/binirefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0310f1cb-241e-4098-8fb4-2f7eb37468b2/95796390183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0f35c21-6538-4c93-b354-04bc0269feef/what_is_the_best_personal_blender_for_smoothies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d926bbd-827a-4616-978b-4f44e7aeaf3e/how_to_connect_to_big_blue_live_2.0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4661990-664c-4af3-bc0b-b663306a854f/jugoxekexonuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f5622e65-8b87-4afa-ab42-c23e85db08f0/ketiniliwomipigigonele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0778d94d-b67d-49c3-8f6f-43f52d6edec9.filesusr.com/ugd/b85eb0_cec1336fbded4aa2995bdc8a5ac8cf2b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8eb0ff2f-1b5f-41fb-a82b-bf279dc7f43e.filesusr.com/ugd/868f76_a471452d706847e49b9bc56e4787dede.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9afb1793-bc57-4514-bb46-74e980466609.filesusr.com/ugd/11f207_fcb8db0c67844d8c89385f9f76f7d64a.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_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6f585b2d5adf50d89d9e31c3dfba33a711eb44d120907388a0d173f00cc5d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10855 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 7725fd60c2fc3cb5161c2d6217633854f3f2e848602e9e9a5cd3b166029f0299