Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e0e46900f5edf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-03-14 22:33:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 05e150dc29ff6e9458f4269de04ec643 SHA-1: e3a8180e4770db7beb9fd1d642c3372f846874d2 SHA-256: a1e0e46900f5edf25f25cc8f4d5208a13ee675307e2b70e1f2bbda417eb44a0c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be directing users to external URLs for phishing or further compromise. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

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://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=avon+catalogue+may+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://uggi-ugg.com/stress_management_questionnaire_for_college_students5ssyh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waystep.site/ansi_150_flange_dimensions_in_mm9sz75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426819/normal_6046eb85ae208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praktika-ingenieur.com/70071655644d26gm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemuvubakada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494784/zasikokekidabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461485/normal_5fe5f0db08806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xekukagakodepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999272/49171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gukapubukon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108909/xagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leomannapov.com/bass_guitar_chord_notesckhjn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rapofureduf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164295/tawujavuv_busagovero_varobako_tagovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470837/normal_5fd3930931bb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479462/normal_5ffb66d92356b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirtygirl.fun/el_moasser_math_1st_secondary_guide_answers3miuo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://413f70bc-0247-4a04-a3fc-eabb14e2b93f.filesusr.com/ugd/f18ee6_c6eb3dd0254b40b8bacc933f9b84380e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2622264a-fe62-4600-afd9-8cc8cd41fe0b/leading_change_network.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d1159ab4-cbf5-42eb-897b-83a5e94cd7da.filesusr.com/ugd/536122_dabb87b1725046e0a80b3c4943b5dd4e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9c43cb74-45e3-47de-9527-fda2e8336169.filesusr.com/ugd/af0aa9_7cf65c7d2bfa4d839e117514e098bb2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45ae50e1-98a8-4501-9ad6-fc0df438eb43.filesusr.com/ugd/b16523_1632188544264baab7c7df0acda264a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0dd0cd87-80d3-4eb5-b9c6-73c43c3a6fca.filesusr.com/ugd/f0b6b3_92f68dfcb2fd413d9f7c3567ca31e179.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/850bf966-7d3e-48a7-9677-3f5b73ea639b/how_can_i_be_a_good_student_paragraph.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_off0000db82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB82 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2be3428a86713390cb8d6808cfe827863cb81adde3ed9ff88d7a4363ad7fcc
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB4 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 8bcc3ab4ebd0f802d66e219106018c8afa6d02a3f581def50789302864d0efba