Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea302b611923b37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 20:39:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3a7507a635dc34247a57921ad2595fa5 SHA-1: 09ddaabe1aa277574f90239087e503a5066d3fe4 SHA-256: 9ea302b611923b376e7e5590d76510dc8911d3e40e4d23f83709c35826fd9d41
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing or a trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI heuristics point towards the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=ks3+mental+maths+test+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://zunotebizi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648513/3210242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sagoxanoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134350044/wuzapizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pizolixes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874149/3331446.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/3cbda8d8-4167-4408-8f0c-28094ee6e79d/mumokesole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96baca33-8aff-46f8-a580-20eb3cb2f9e7/minecraft_free_download_mac_1.15.2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d974a73-8b41-4332-8c97-8d1b0aa94b69/ge_jvm7195skss_filter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f009c8fc-26d8-4ed4-8cbe-bbf9608456dd/all_my_sons_moving_average_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0c0ed85-0068-4ff0-84a3-ae12bba1ef40/bonuxoxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7505a5e0-68bc-4230-a567-d225d7c4f734/32817191579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09a1dc69-6944-4a48-bc31-b523ca14f29e/75485468011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikabipi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144725916/sumas_y_restas_con_llevadas_3_primaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/08d98214-7279-49fb-bbd1-ad19c7dba6d6/wafofanomukodowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paderukut.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144437319/75811151551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razevolo.pbworks.com/f/13741233752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5588783d-7832-4b09-89d7-8b2921d3cc9a/el_juego_de_la_vida_y_como_jugarlo_audiolibro_completo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funinupun.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144418524/nudexumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7374fef9-4fab-4345-9b39-30ded5e2985c/vomabujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c1aed44-cece-452b-b243-5ba65a41502f/what_is_entity_tax_residency_self-certification_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3d1f0b2-55c8-438e-9d61-50694f286a5e/84162257579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7834de1-1ca0-4a5c-8a3e-3a7476a1627b/30482806325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d34867b-4827-4ca0-b754-aea6f63bd74d/misolizajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2dee82d-44e2-4768-b941-3837635d82e0/americas_test_kitchen_freezer_meals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/972d3967-46a5-4ebf-920d-262d42ccceb9/xepavurumoxa.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_off00011f2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2E 5416 bytes
SHA-256: b7f3752bb10e0b84acee67360bbb14d5ee349c7b5e10b45eacf0a3b97b1b7fa0
font_01_sfnt_off00013179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13179 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 92d4239faec90f4f050cbba315c6fd40b023c395a8eff7c4844660e504b78e31