Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978cecca79412c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-03-25 10:36:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: db3e8ab344e5320772a342f615e8b0b1 SHA-1: 57d06f11527c6b7262b28f9af4d20b6b7a542e82 SHA-256: 978cecca79412c46b686306d9693d5e5c2be74c864be6c811dcf251a506cf4fb
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an invoice-themed lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/award?keyword=animal+welfare+act+of+1966+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://povulofi.mywebcommunity.org/pioneer_vsx-521_factory_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369514/normal_5ff94c4d57d7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383806/normal_6006c655071dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rabovafom/gggf1ii/zagawiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinulafi/6hj8Tjd/weed_strains_appetite_suppressant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415951/normal_6021126183175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365608/normal_603427c701076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/maxanogefo/YJiaicH/22821551551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459162/normal_5fd0f0b8796b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fabokofe/fPiNBU7/4779940630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bulunazi/jh7jhgi/football_tournament_draw_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475563/normal_6033ff7e6987c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebogekememesij.mygamesonline.org/rheem_hot_water_heater_comparison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457876/normal_5ffbe4d88fe99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lososimap/business_case_study_format_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzemepusiloj.onlinewebshop.net/what_are_the_four_sutras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixezized.myartsonline.com/tindakan_asepsis_dan_antisepsis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totuxivez.onlinewebshop.net/characteristics_of_digital_computer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wolawatin/what_milestones_should_a_7_month_old_have.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF999 5356 bytes
SHA-256: e4760e490185f9f5d21a692f5292c6d598b671a613476ccf66971d7ef3fbe244
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB5 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 6d05c5ffa08382bf6f321f8f2a8da0e09dd098a599c81ca5d70065c8c3d9ae0e
font_02_sfnt_off00013196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13196 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333