Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b498c30b874e43d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-03-18 09:26:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e73bb046b18fe2491431a07676d244ea SHA-1: e335cde2f36726d2ef59e833e9ed959c0fbb5300 SHA-256: 9b498c30b874e43da063c306d7162ee55c6f913be1b8b720b70ea395287dd848
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for SEO spam or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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/123?utm_term=kingdom+come+deliverance+main+quest+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://gugukufetufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134337187/luripodap_bewareru_dudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409819/normal_602dd4a348463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500187/normal_602231adc25ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanadujogo/ii9gija/red_velvet_bad_boy_aesthetic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modebedunizux.iblogger.org/worthy_is_the_lamb_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/petebeki/hxjhoAZ/27401076418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuxupurevulivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813143/zugubeboretov_dobev_musibejelokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burubigek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884838/d1433eab16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406481/normal_6034e1910c5d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409113/normal_6050b99a4db03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485434/normal_5fe6a6513896a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389085/normal_5ff34d7a34e05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365656/normal_5fded401bf8bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466673/normal_5fd29812ba447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497353/normal_602638511d2bc.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/b5578ebd-670a-4915-a6a2-53db161d2cf2/83769201348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eda5d90b-e0b7-41e1-9503-25c5b256a7da/xufizadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/525f463b-8044-4149-8cdf-32129a7acef3/where_the_wild_things_are_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latowetutut.epizy.com/zosujadetezaxatate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8783bc2d-9350-4c46-aed8-07267aceef8f/what_is_the_meaning_of_comparative_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazavoregotula.rf.gd/classical_guitar_arpeggio_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bujoraz.rf.gd/10801584326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33ae8b17-f5b9-4f6d-b85b-ef19baeed7c1/81039251502.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_off00019719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19719 5416 bytes
SHA-256: a79ea9e5cbcbe839a33e8cc7c25e3f82d8b47a38353569fe4b1029c3409f6488
font_01_sfnt_off0001a974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A974 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 45a9054cf2bd0446c592bbc4bb7fb007869d065652feacd503458972974cfba1