Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5fb23372e9ad2d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

156.9 KB Created: 2021-03-19 17:21:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6517122afa856d6143db7352beaeac2e SHA-1: 26f1abca3ed21a29ff01f35c96da77f1b978ceec SHA-256: a5fb23372e9ad2d3c6a0103d6563f1223fd15c46522c01ca571538fa426db800
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://jumiwimov.ru/123?utm_term=srs+airbag+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xavipinav/3ijGzhh/saxexibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tumosirewuw/ffRgfqe/fagaputalelitafedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tisorobew/hhajeaD/magizoologist_wizards_unite_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wasefago/hnTYa3q/barbie_dress_up_games_free_download_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454052/normal_6044bb96b2dfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolunejasuvufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776008/9711200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xopuwatipo/hijjggo/music_lab_song_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374189/normal_602dcff7ca277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legufita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866723/df7cd24141d7c22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392861/normal_60383a08496f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443357/normal_5fc7f8ce5443e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458625/normal_60342248626ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482854/normal_60385b172dd9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465269/normal_5fc8512036e61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427793/normal_5feafdd6b115b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vesagivara/r6gdynH/rewevekofaredim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kafufojugure/jjhchar/nosedokepagosebojizetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bejomewuv/jbYiwfC/vafaxemiderosabefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e1d5fa5a-667c-4d22-bb72-2ec96b4ed0f7.filesusr.com/ugd/01f30d_01d4afc6f7a541ffbbe7c3129448604f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://26f2e344-8444-46ea-90c9-5a893bcc2fb3.filesusr.com/ugd/b8c837_266d2c17bb68429598c97d2dd9266f73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b0e1d79-1acc-45ba-a965-31015372eee8.filesusr.com/ugd/67f5f7_9bf26b44b45f4388bf041557507166ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6b137298-3864-41c5-aaa3-11744000c3c2.filesusr.com/ugd/b916f4_a457971884bd480e81ce594d7dc5d3cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6ba7316d-b84b-4ccb-a32a-103c856d4013.filesusr.com/ugd/91f37e_d7bb524da9d64dd5aeb43d6eb3f669a5.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001f67d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F67D 8132 bytes
SHA-256: ab63fb69144fe20395ff86662fd47889adb2b3a4351ee97222fdbfcf4d2d11f9
font_01_sfnt_off000211f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x211F9 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 65b4a090929bf88741942069e47456492e4bb29ccd59e78d2e81e23934079887
font_02_sfnt_off00022537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22537 12804 bytes
SHA-256: d9d2e3de59bf95c3ff2ef985cbc1c8a02ffa29a7e59af0d93d7a0c7e946b84ff
font_03_sfnt_off00024fe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24FE3 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953