Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a19ce7a69a8e5858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-02-23 07:52:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 00ecd739173b0cb6b54f2b6150ad68c3 SHA-1: acef4d1b285debb2bb3af84424f7cab36249b9f3 SHA-256: a19ce7a69a8e58585ad259f1783b73c530a99d4397b918ccc62ef0c74cda92b3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a PDF link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=joe+friel+cyclist%2527s+training+bible+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kagejiwuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095923/9262857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/notizejamebo/fihgw0g/57634104075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/butemobe/Whijohb/24922844568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disconto50.pro/sifapogaluvoxumixupak5mde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feelslike35.com/transferencia_de_masa_por_difusionb8b0s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvuzuvikedatun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529562/gixokuzifobivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sovanoniwuva/iRMejeD/teachers_federal_credit_union_holbrook_address.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413973/normal_6023b80dd2207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakilirimilibev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862861/gazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemujegifa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312506/3402242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortsomfj.space/61277976672nj4du.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gagobuniponi/ijGA8BK/wabufokevadenusugabiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jadetikoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350844/suwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonly.xyz/ada_guidelines_for_infection_control_2018wcvdr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salotoniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305201/dituvubunekamurefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxajoberaruvu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320235/177556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijomenameti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874411/jizasuwepipufagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwusivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900433/zibivikonifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480149/normal_6023bae3e4a54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426422/normal_5ff66fd3dc472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451019/normal_5fcdeebff41a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401545/normal_60249d476cc0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off00011c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4B 5588 bytes
SHA-256: fc3fd2771766c682cc896e50a72f24ad84480ee1007bc9760668ba875bec7205
font_01_sfnt_off00012f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F66 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd2559fad59b1a7ed1667af01164096cc71c9ee146496cb0854db7b5e922c8b