Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a43e7352a7f7e087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-03-14 13:12:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 1745c9828bf27c070161a13ab16b3327 SHA-1: 9f3c3268c73f52f1fe7c27ecaf1569349bad9ce8 SHA-256: a43e7352a7f7e08727be8616c7c2b74283a4e80be6ef5cdde9151d9d4fce3e14
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/award?keyword=iupac+nomenclature+of+functional+groups+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://misefaditiza.22web.org/absorbing_man_full_movie_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482848/normal_601151fcd09bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424026/normal_602f4f950ba44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387590/normal_602f08a36b118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinavufapakoto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134460237/leridar-womawirepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simidolipuxemit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486986/2e5d3ee017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakisemakegag.sportsontheweb.net/is_couples_therapy_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texifudosino.mygamesonline.org/persepolis_book_review_new_york_times.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464053/normal_601b8093368f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366622/normal_5fe52d84acc1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bufezipuduxev.mywebcommunity.org/notas_de_acordeon_de_botones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fukefuxatolu.epizy.com/hyperlink_excel_cell_to_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc483e3d-950a-48dc-86dd-98bce13ee7fe/how_do_you_demonstrate_cultural_safety_in_the_workplace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukezodebas.onlinewebshop.net/vuvapufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5263bf36-6743-4549-be44-99ce2796be86/benzhou_yiying_yy50qt-6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilepobafomunow.atwebpages.com/mawileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06186f93-f2a9-4825-b4eb-b07756f1c818/51265571724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad8e6307-5ce1-4a3c-8953-c243ab5606ec/leah_on_the_offbeat_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8619057-93db-485d-8220-9bf56e92247f/tales_from_the_loop_imdb_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45b572a7-6d82-40fc-bbd3-6f96bdfac786/86592183059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6b0b26f-5317-47ce-8f66-ddbfdaa19dc5/answer_sheet_panjab_university.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_off0000e7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EE 5412 bytes
SHA-256: abc86c9e610796c7a43304f49713dcc973f318e35743f045fd904831b3dec496
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3F 10040 bytes
SHA-256: d8444ee46993662947bdbabce2c4a8c0d831b9f84a294d4bc164568b329d678f