Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac673d9450ddb72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-05-30 21:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6ad5f2c2e0e34acf3c463767c3892887 SHA-1: 15b478ae037197c3a893eb828023811f625acf59 SHA-256: 9ac673d9450ddb72f6fc50e35c89b8289600679a4eed1a74208d877420fd2509
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to computer security. The presence of ML and ClamAV detections, along with the link farm heuristic, strongly indicates malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+run+a+virus+scan+on+dell+computer PDF link annotation
    • https://telewapoki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897398/dfa6ae6566fb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memefuzagimo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134612336/5de9ea17d4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werobipopopavuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163729/lopevodawokome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabubogoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997439/remalabix_bukikanidet_rokomise_pepones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422373/normal_6064e3a3491aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383471/normal_604680a9a5dd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368249/normal_602110a2f08fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gapulujazupimes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134775062/dakazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xepezexitig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969834/63ce876f19b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefererasixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749514/7719375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolimoxozidexus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682882/7767319.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/761c7878-d4f1-42e7-bb68-62813f4102bd/80446577823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b98d065c-fe67-4977-8837-3cb7d3d5b322/20376437642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/311a7dd6-1895-418f-aa62-8a80bbb7f5d3/what_is_serial_number_format_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcfe3491-c08f-4f53-b467-a67ce185cfcc/pentair_intellichlor_issues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22000759-17b7-4f40-ac8b-35c8f3e6b2e3/la_casa_de_bernarda_alba_personajes_hijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02083bd1-a792-41c0-b515-bb1e46ee12f5/how_to_write_rap_lyrics_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f3b37dd-f89b-4296-bda3-aaad85cfb2a5/mebamusovifiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/34a2347b-097a-406d-9bba-149b5f50cc94/jejovilodojokepufidojer.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_off0000fba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA9 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 01d458caa8b6d154492843ceea3053bb1418b9bf525e1b49b48232e99216d24a
font_01_sfnt_off00010d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D59 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 21ccd08e4a6337bb23851826c5f2bf688c05975292a7da32ed65dea5da7dcecd
font_02_sfnt_off000132ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71