Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e42a33c3bbfcaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-03-24 05:44:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 0e3fb68acca2a73e8719898dac943225 SHA-1: 9aa66123093238fe9c897994a131b6e3e5e0edc0 SHA-256: a3e42a33c3bbfcaac350190ba4036cb91042eb5a5828a54026055f5dd317f1aa
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URL 'https://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=anette+inselberg+her%25C5%259Fey+de%25C4%259Fi%25C5%259Fir+pdf' is likely part of the phishing or spam lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=anette+inselberg+her%25C5%259Fey+de%25C4%259Fi%25C5%259Fir+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485929/normal_60153452ecf5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramsecurity.net/remove_google_search_history_safari_ipadi7t1t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2020coupons.info/sat_writing_score_percentilesy0rlp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450883/normal_6038476bd8e31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://busenijerebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695513/2577386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479454/normal_60594d39e82c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412900/normal_5fec775c405e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385421/normal_60199729563af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456687/normal_60330b9925a64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-copyright-confirms.com/verbos_regulares_e_irregulares_en_ingles_en_pasado_participiorbuqy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372719/normal_602c7c862fc0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotuwuwobegeze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476082/nuwelelub-linevudaker-firuze-balizuxupowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c1cb471f-fc5c-4ef2-b3e1-4d0d0d09d135.filesusr.com/ugd/cc5b41_66ea27581e7d4747bf1c947647b4cc84.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba30dffa-51fe-4caa-9472-6f142403a9bb.filesusr.com/ugd/c2007e_7f31850fcab94df3a3671b0ab7b3f790.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://31f314b5-0768-4c24-bd49-4596ea953b46.filesusr.com/ugd/85a4b1_aef64a03999e472e93fcbf0db1470735.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://46ebecaa-9490-439b-bba6-ee77f1a6ca93.filesusr.com/ugd/cee8a1_a1968953d79c4d96ad589fad8b902b3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://143c7e3e-1a56-4739-9c24-5aac26b0263b.filesusr.com/ugd/28d7c1_c0c9e21c45134473985acae265e16412.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1de4b56a-3309-4767-83a2-f1bb1ea7c594.filesusr.com/ugd/a6e5e9_879b43e2b6e1479ca43350fe09a1fd01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c78267de-509c-4cb0-9394-6b21b7876e04.filesusr.com/ugd/290ce3_7e77c9bd0c5c48c3b98273399823b974.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DE 5804 bytes
SHA-256: d182245ade384a05a169d0e1a20da5d8e3b94b7527c3fd67284197188c0e9928
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A2 12556 bytes
SHA-256: c3abd6f70512d163b316288085c55e7f73fb7f237932b9dd3396f62751529eb3