Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16c61627cd17a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-03-20 07:59:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a3afe5873f7164c9d92c286e6a40b22f SHA-1: c697394006bc8032553b63cbdd552a919aeb0a2e SHA-256: a16c61627cd17a0476bacaa6fbc32be81ef348ea13f1e3e1e26426730c309c7b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, one of which is explicitly for 'battery operated hair dryer for camping australia', suggesting a deceptive lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=battery+operated+hair+dryer+for+camping+australia PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sozimelizak/iigjiiV/heart_touching_quotes_about_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisatemubudu.medianewsonline.com/alphonso_dunn_pen_and_ink_drawing_a_simple_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevubulik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680874/kuburukusivebiporup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalekost.site/appareil_gnital_masculin_fonctionnementaai0o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wide-do.top/64923225362pe1qt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zogobadakedu/ejeSies/bubble_bobble_nes_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejepuzalew.mygamesonline.org/autodesk_sketchbook_mobile_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zigivigafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392575/2104577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofosalamo/iiXibgg/geometry_dash_subzero_mod_apk_ios.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://b147a2f3-58af-4013-9def-597e86e94513.filesusr.com/ugd/47d6bb_86d3149109234060a96a26e182811e02.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://efed9c07-4553-4484-a419-1b844d271aeb.filesusr.com/ugd/6f475a_f46c971f9e7b4fc6824205923d3ae2be.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1618b3f4-dcc0-4047-a816-eeb1cbe43c51.filesusr.com/ugd/a01749_0badac2bf5a240f0aef15eae3230f5ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d321836a-1bf8-47c4-b4d3-67fe1e7f0250.filesusr.com/ugd/33ab24_0250b134406d45458025ccd2c37c1c38.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pekafujojef.onlinewebshop.net/63784595793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4ceac43d-3374-4736-8926-b47930641487.filesusr.com/ugd/3b1191_c4028a7526b04f44997f464a138f2d4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://170a7d3c-74f0-42f5-9ead-98ae292a4922.filesusr.com/ugd/a18aa6_5eee69744a784bfdbfef3eff14cf3b32.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ad55601-b8ab-4ae0-bc0e-e90069072326.filesusr.com/ugd/3aca14_5ad4b2c8fae245f8bbb281f86391034c.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A9 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 0a788b45b951ba859af116eb85f2261a3eae5ca752358df53420a7a1069e844d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9A 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd26fc76ec6ac04be7327dc0dc616453fa76dd9f010609674dbddebd7562dea
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f