Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ef1b80765e72a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 18:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c99f9fe16ad976592205e107f0598f0d SHA-1: 961fd4e9ce0d4c02812fb36493d57804692d4436 SHA-256: a5ef1b80765e72a92747a2d0ddb2d1c9672d96a666294d9819bf6183d96c5216
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to updating an Android box, which is likely a pretext to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://baarspo.ru/123?utm_term=how+to+update+my+x96+android+box
    • https://bisojobiregabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509607/penafowutip.pdf
    • https://gupovokezatiku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878629/4840108.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459188/normal_6007e20b1a775.pdf
    • https://bemawupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740003/6569132.pdf
    • https://ramabubutimelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597411/2326931.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379489/normal_60623eee2dc2b.pdf
    • https://zagozejidenadap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407028/betowizasugedi.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459166/normal_60230f281259c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417406/normal_60686c9c8ea0d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486997/normal_60b89b40a7436.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474980/normal_602591c7132d1.pdf
    • https://vemujevamari.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452814/75bfbd.pdf
    • https://kubazavazagemu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464578/19929e3a7711cb.pdf
    • https://nofuzibid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453406/zubawoxew.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc0e2c10-f88f-4c71-98b0-a1f39cb2c0c3/how_to_reset_mini_r56_service_light.pdf
    • http://wenuveraroto.pbworks.com/f/wisenoxekew.pdf
    • http://negaboxa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144629619/22409276088.pdf
    • http://japomajuxire.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144570855/talerudizaxebodaxudi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdef3895-e8d9-414c-b848-d7bccb4b1c2e/nawegodogav.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8b09550-ff43-4233-bb71-2e98a59fc370/what_is_the_molecular_formula_of_whey_protein.pdf
    • http://wuranosa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144616239/bukevitozel.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35878756-a45a-4f90-8b43-8f04a5775d51/62627200682.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11a814ce-997e-46da-ab75-bfefffc5b084/rain_dial_plus_irritrol.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010204.bin
6e51bc7a591856984ff7101fd06039250739d3faf635079be22ba85b3a4b7302
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011480.bin
39f2617a652f2b80df92a87f8c1330e36f833f17b099d43f121c37871fc983da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11480 22364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014651.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14651 4324 bytes