Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98057cc2b231df68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-12 02:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5ce225b95515919d5ccaacc07c85ab07 SHA-1: 58fe3e8e0082c66307caa1ba2ade016f73c236d2 SHA-256: 98057cc2b231df6888e32f0b1f7dd162c87832c059aae6298e7d2718569a9cab
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, further supporting the malicious intent of redirecting users to external sites.

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://archism.ru/pbw?utm_term=christian+igbo+songs PDF link annotation
    • https://ririsibonegibo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596323/8483168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawixokuboja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097397/6100338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvinegedixipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637649/rubonadaxe_pozow_pivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepadamive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134468065/muvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewelalebun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585336/resabe-xugumifokazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebijigubewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770847/dopadukanubegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podozipejubepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893890/vovovufumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490366/normal_6005a14f9400f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugezufetewivu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598593/foditosebamagexegoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulegeletemewux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738758/143f7303f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rupovopijono.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863796/mirelusisaletoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jifejajazarig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307839/b07be1ab18245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mifadugusukar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135337027/gakokezuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tawemitanenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134474066/lifowojeseremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418184/normal_603204e71fef7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366364/normal_5ff6514bcdbe3.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/2a755814-d8fc-4fa1-be83-dc9c8020f6f9/98156238426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruzudateteb.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144934017/rejosakinufazogipunosonob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davixezudi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144647556/questes_adjunto_adverbial_7o_ano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatojorisa.pbworks.com/f/samsung_j2_ace_frp_bypass_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6305f69-e56f-4734-a32f-1280b4cab02e/asp.net_mvc_5_best_book.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_off0000ea2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2D 4960 bytes
SHA-256: 3e441424392f939045b43a9fd9ce9e7d48551709fa4b39b2b4403a9c790214f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAFD 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 2319bc444a63a47261f5e52f8fe45ecc6e2ba57a93c66b7cfd45c3b164b40e3f