Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2047f79c52c53ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 17:29:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 55ed53d15784571b2be6d4695030c2d3 SHA-1: b001a038d05e956e74cbfcd28367e3072ca5c8c4 SHA-256: a2047f79c52c53ac2ba7d38ad7bb8357b64ca4f725a02b3052081a3eeb82f9a3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, indicating it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=language+learning+strategies+definition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jifigetuxu/hxggdjb/photo_editor_online_free_hd_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pigamudabuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235231/3ad40e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanuzelikaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889809/jebazugabolipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bivuwusim/hjhadYP/zedezijiwomajadifugibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xenekifa/igHRdpK/metronome_beats_pro_apk_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sebutarukaw/FjjifRi/62687327103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasinapalu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739684/7867390.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/a4139027-3504-463b-a96f-21314fcc6365/al_qadim_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a6f258b-5add-41d3-8345-d82d455c0a92/zukinivezenisakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec7ddac3-fd26-4107-8afe-28ebba4d58e7/calories_taco_bell_crunchy_beef_taco_supreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuxabatadifu.onlinewebshop.net/chemistry_unit_6_states_of_matter_phase_change_graph_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e0271a52-a7af-48e9-8a99-924ce320ec62.filesusr.com/ugd/be5703_9a7ff343803742a5a744c53bf9109f34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jisunopesaluzi.atwebpages.com/cognitive_behavioral_therapy_techniques_for_retraining_your_brain_-_jason_m._satterfield.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b30e1289-84f6-4358-9f17-c625a6ce2011/25575044451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8459e90c-be13-479e-a9be-d99920778514/will_cyberpunk_2077_be_fixed_on_xbox_one.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78135f83-5d12-4c0b-a33f-e381ccc80057/pejugime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d0bf7e8b-5449-41c0-93e9-161603c0719f.filesusr.com/ugd/197ed4_d202d291719e4089bd5644ab9fb4ac36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c17eca17-8c92-4792-af0b-343f406e3e44/48589065932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://858e1da1-ad31-4e5b-aec0-89c59c6c71f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6240f8_56fe563ca3a6469fb37b53e672929301.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e702706f-d30e-4588-bb3e-142c33f944a3/fametixorepeweroxasifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a71ba0d-27ed-48a2-8035-7fe62b3c27cf/speed_drawing_challenge_ideas.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_off000131a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A0 5152 bytes
SHA-256: d243ada6f9870eaad9a30d83d5c2f5538316eef1207db477b3f5fcc64c3643b5
font_01_sfnt_off0001433b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433B 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 447d162a1b15588eb3d374984d004025647d009bd9a39ab0d5ae00024413c8d0