Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e7cd3f7b515b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-03-22 23:34:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7e003e86871407c16279f5b59d1c621b SHA-1: be1ce523f2b9a496152c4d644d8334112ba7c3de SHA-256: 98e7cd3f7b515b989d5eca33304b9bc51fc8eabd73f36030a7e917aee91b04c3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan distribution vehicle. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the extracted URLs, https://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=salinger+franny+and+zooey+quotes, is likely a redirector or part of the malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=salinger+franny+and+zooey+quotes PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/metexemoraga/ajHhfia/lapenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifapovidajep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738911/48fd8761f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/takejirasomu/ibAt1mQ/biwepajeledilisipavuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xononegedu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738921/nazupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegepefuloruwan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012378/vewuvixun_kakovutevanil_puwuxakad_giniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zajagatetode/aDgjjiu/pinball_machine_for_sale_melbourne.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fionainthefield.org/6036113077wvryw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopecommunitynaz.com/durban_city_tour_guidesbqhfq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pufinixebajev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873949/vabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sobexezawatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134903145/zorivabakizilaziwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vorebilifi/5jajfjd/dropwizard_metrics_timer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalvictory.group/19353418435nzvyn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zonurubo/HRieJWg/gameboy_pocket_shell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluhgang.best/fanufukiwb64vq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezegumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108828/9569928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2a4c341d-9af7-4f89-b48a-1b926ad6ced7.filesusr.com/ugd/dd6616_605d2f076a754067b2fad929fd704c20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b19b3b79-9ae2-4e99-9b16-ef32671d60f4.filesusr.com/ugd/0bc867_f66a04d745824dd091f2a0ae838caa22.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9f503c4c-bf14-4dcb-9a7a-68e0e5bb3568.filesusr.com/ugd/8ac1ab_0a5c07193cd34c3eae9257a75586ba69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2cc3dcad-61c1-4442-8662-ca5be7cd8672.filesusr.com/ugd/71b93f_3b2eb5bbfd7b4e0ab65ddf1891c203e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1c019786-7048-4615-837a-ae53f087c4ae.filesusr.com/ugd/8b4172_ca4da32369bd43da8517ec9d7339f871.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84C 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 89e2154bc236e8a1a6626563ff8be7f8bccce1b1c86d68079d8b34fd03776844
font_01_sfnt_off0000faf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF2 12760 bytes
SHA-256: cf1216d8c6725712221739528e839ed7526d260daa7ca9a0a75086d8d23e090e