Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a6793ea43b69be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-04-20 21:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a1ec917d38ceaa8873b72f38a6d61991 SHA-1: b3b652238e54031ac6b45de8f06d414a6c9cf277 SHA-256: 98a6793ea43b69be39c016e38e0090e92185670c525a0599c488e3ba1d253cf1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to facilitate initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=stealth+camping+san+diego PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369313/normal_600bda1231b5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415327/normal_60570ae342cf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zimopiroxab/cjfFjdr/49310919437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kutajanode/ggig4f5/remote_legal_cashier_jobs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wufotubi/V68Sghy/jawufajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xemugugafot/gdgiihd/73077565002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/teduwugevoki/jfhdVia/risk_of_rain_2_item_index.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368223/normal_6034d22f23e52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wazotifuk/hfRbVgi/lg_mobile_switch_app_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462696/normal_5fe61ac6798ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/satasevubu/bCvUThh/sefetasiwirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366302/normal_6000d3ee350ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a7da3e60-63c8-46c1-a846-eab7df628ed2.filesusr.com/ugd/bba345_4b4d9e4ae50d40319d5da80ecd0ac96a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0c82b12f-57ed-4e8c-8d48-54c40ae4c4e8.filesusr.com/ugd/205ae4_9b172cbacdd44d24901e1fcee4388117.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://689a2394-1721-4ce0-b6f7-af9f1dc0d621.filesusr.com/ugd/0f5b72_27a4da48192a4ad496b3903ce74c809b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a8a70d16-e3f0-4805-b115-4d8c62c40b57.filesusr.com/ugd/82e28d_9abdc8920d494889bc548027539cb1cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://83f018a0-8e49-44f0-b57e-805e464a5f06.filesusr.com/ugd/10a4aa_3a48e6e230e0403183aef6a65aaae650.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1c8fadd7-09eb-4d2b-9d42-8e747ba5ce52.filesusr.com/ugd/60625b_f11d45a9dd8c4ef99605e0082d75e4ab.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F0 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 66c833850651c6346071174f10695b040580360715708077c23e6edf9ef82347
font_01_sfnt_off00010977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10977 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8efcf9a578af8d7208036417700178b08a0b9d33d316899b7b39b9a04c6b0e
font_02_sfnt_off00012e7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E7E 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 503f5200e83b189a546b6c6e1d808633a9135186956fe76ff9bd78de3d91e3c6