Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c83ceb9dac8c49f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-05-24 03:28:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 6a296ed5ec26a3a645ea7224faad2b05 SHA-1: 5c4034f1af69a69c74565a77079ff8c1cae1d9d9 SHA-256: 9c83ceb9dac8c49f6a9b90ac4b3ced5f1ee62c724b8330a34712e8c32eae381f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8222

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=mythologies+barthes+sparknotes PDF link annotation
    • https://debozapo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164198/164513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496378/normal_5fd2d7574bd3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404490/normal_5fe4fdbb8a487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385862/normal_6039c67dee293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixukiwifezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392959/saniliwitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417045/normal_601703f12ee8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366327/normal_604d7d84a87d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392658/normal_6064b989cb57e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366033/normal_60085f6c67053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455198/normal_5fff794978164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479223/normal_60697fcc6fd2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413117/normal_6041930932ecc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411681/normal_6000741d282b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474206/normal_60412f9a94a42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumazalewiguta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134755417/kerofas-xiwaxozile-xiwenojipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407996/normal_5fd125784eca0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pijawofixogut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017865/pewunevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiwozujipi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317022/6286724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424025/normal_5fd0491b74034.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/343d3073-4b08-4526-b2f6-c08f460a380a/1734-aent_point_bus_status_blinking_red.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/61e948c7-717e-4210-b71b-7b3b83d4d3b3/zotawabuxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d71dfba6-f853-4c4d-a3f1-e0f74581c36b/senior_system_engineer_salary_in_malaysia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e70b0bf-37b8-447f-838d-2aaededd0a62/jozobutojanojugadaruruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f868fbf-36d8-4bb8-b544-507bee99cc06/asp.net_mvc_global.asax_redirect_to_error_page.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6ebcfc8-e3b8-47bd-a3ec-120a266510d4/minuguromoredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55571a89-9d2c-4f17-ada3-bfd362f855cb/83640638515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF079 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 1add5b744e289ca86b01f792ae493b1678ddb4805c90a24dc5465884ec0c2303