Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98dbd780eb2cf644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-03-16 15:40:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ff589eb41bf862715ac423dea6ac8927 SHA-1: c588b68e2ee77f012eb086416340931dc639f5b9 SHA-256: 98dbd780eb2cf644b31de67d9404c1fc3f89d9a5d3f87288042690fde9eb87da
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URL and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to disguise malicious activity as a book summary.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=rebeli%25C3%25B3n+en+la+granja+libro+resumen PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403271/normal_6021160e8586d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bokexetukesu.iblogger.org/37683062861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387699/normal_5ff26a3071988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dofukatejipoz.66ghz.com/wizukani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404108/normal_60129805b34c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408180/normal_602151bd95f7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387826/normal_6035a56009456.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/b438e284-97ad-4de6-ad87-10916376843f/96513390494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nederanunotaz.rf.gd/12395127579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf218852-a3af-4c0d-bf59-dc0344aa0fb8/luwewaxidamiwudeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0ea58fb-3cb9-4b2b-8c44-cb560c6e1078/50501521336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bcc40af6-3fee-47ea-a97e-1ad7f0bdbd1d/zizivitizasoluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2df7536a-ab64-4dd3-a6ca-98e0eca144a4.filesusr.com/ugd/de578f_9bb0b54ab85042c7a39f7628245ebd71.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/796e5d13-fdaa-4c51-9c26-99dd59f005d9/rajorukalulawegoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d8acad56-eb9a-42d1-a06c-a695c5b02328.filesusr.com/ugd/0ad6c7_82194e4d6f2f4922a16fd4be442c3234.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91313464-3f42-441e-b0e8-b27065d471ad.filesusr.com/ugd/ee9d3f_bca51450fe9843f0b87ebd7790152407.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5990a3ea-cee1-4467-b003-2e159c353d1c/dell_optiplex_3010_audio_driver_for_windows_7_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/277d991b-bdba-4933-bbb8-7c6a4e8a296c/49635639728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://41c240d9-b4af-4f88-8fa4-2a41cce3a287.filesusr.com/ugd/01bc73_9bdeff0e75934e0e900c2520260b7fb5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7302f9c0-160a-4ac4-8590-b38af528b369/how_much_is_the_magic_bullet_at_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ff0b3df2-dc61-4aeb-9024-93fa9b5bc175.filesusr.com/ugd/aa14a9_06b098ff5bed4ad298d2b2841f4a300f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/832f27ae-0e8f-43d9-841a-f79f73141b3b/how_to_do_joint_probability_distribution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c71686ea-0c2b-4cef-9e39-a3bc902bbbf9/el_arte_de_la_guerra_scribd.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_off00011cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF7 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 7970929c73d8acc141ce5ea4c9b9b81e43041bc692e74a5e4294751cff5f9b01
font_01_sfnt_off00012ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE8 13436 bytes
SHA-256: d94fe6784ac841f27f228e592da5e6ec44426940624bb52322645c3e68f22816