Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96dc87b7c138b65c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-04-08 06:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9ef42293b5a900eb48281d6dd25bfb16 SHA-1: edb22caa7bf93cb70da916ba84db2389ffaeb3ab SHA-256: 96dc87b7c138b65c3c3da18448fc45445d39e691acbe185df30222df28d50855
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a high number of external links, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' strongly suggests the document's content is intended to deceive users into believing they are receiving a prize or parcel, a common advance-fee fraud scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links indicate a potential for malicious redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://golowaki.ru/123?utm_term=jio+mobile+video+calling+software PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luwokiseg/hsLhjji/soccer_heads_la_liga_unblocked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazukorowoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134488568/tifirugofuvikaw_puwip_gibarodifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopunokapire/XgcrXhi/92787725719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakowubolitek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349387/tepoxilitunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujuwamor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719544/3442744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zipibolusoxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627603/rorudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopiruwikil/ijhbagf/44255196543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zobegutibeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902349/60629f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xevuvuxene/Nichagd/87420601335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/simujix/carol_ann_duffy_biography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/poresi/vejukatifulurobiriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://354df738-7a8c-4643-bdcd-aa58f7c4bd0c.filesusr.com/ugd/69cf62_71f17e98518b4bf3b565497410227482.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dipafuxe/rarowinutijuzupujadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zubata/embryogenesis_in_plant_tissue_culture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/levovod/ruguvewuwigovukojopizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kibavutibeved/davapavikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zamemigojat/aadhar_card_using_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96a17384-3537-4f55-b865-d0f1395d4245/34741653027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://26aaa629-0581-4e25-ae32-a194504e59ab.filesusr.com/ugd/2d4e87_1dd9e08dda2d47f4a130e0cec0d60649.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sevoga/fumobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abe0adac-3210-4840-9d1f-0600514f3981/camel_in_action_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vibuvomomuv/tibagebew.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_off00011a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A64 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 95c1ed1892c0745b1527b1127cd515c22e5041fd0fcdb890f9f44447ec8a957f
font_01_sfnt_off00012d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7B 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 4aec4ec4909b6c29b267638a36e926d670011ab3f6d3cd4006ed6d0df11e3157