Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a66476a02264bf3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.9 KB Created: 2021-04-16 15:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b6bf47ffecdfe2c21ac37a73d27255b4 SHA-1: 2f64964a2478ef7c3f87de283ca6cda38f48b4d6 SHA-256: a66476a02264bf3c72f2b157282aa43883d8221ffd261d72955d2dcd3502f142
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious document, including malformed streams and a high ML classifier score. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic indicates a strong likelihood of redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=why+did+jodi+arias+kill+travis+alexander PDF link annotation
    • http://mujubow.getenjoyment.net/22282675312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/woteruzid/jc2ugjA/world_travel_market_dubai_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wakivugex/eicjj6p/shattered_pixel_dungeon_mage_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368227/normal_5fe5d3ef104a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388289/normal_6047b7454c1ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469834/normal_5fdcc4c192d0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xewafazuk/79Phdgg/sonubobosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sodelaranu/SeljeC8/track_visa_status_vfs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melowew.scienceontheweb.net/69248677158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukanugizini.mygamesonline.org/96997664263.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/199ee1dd-18a8-4c63-922e-d698b268a6de/gazodeluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bdbd383-5b0e-49cd-933e-363113458b98/where_can_i_watch_84_charing_cross_road_online_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://60659a61-a27b-47ea-8eac-a81775c62269.filesusr.com/ugd/7a7fb1_ffd6ff6bc7e44f688043c83e07febbcd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f3ea461b-95fd-44cf-949c-5afda193840f.filesusr.com/ugd/a48928_566c4f868663419f810102c1a577853e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2c91b947-1dd8-401e-ae91-d595f2f75867.filesusr.com/ugd/0af078_beca9f6bfa0542499c479e7102dfaa34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44034db3-6cdd-4729-adf3-7ccd6afcf354.filesusr.com/ugd/9fe9cc_a9530f68ac544688a454bf9ee13ced3e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://noroved.myartsonline.com/xufirukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://69f1164a-dcd3-4310-9fb4-3b67f03bdbb0.filesusr.com/ugd/9d7282_2376e519fbe243c797af1c9c58ab6397.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ef4f36e-65c5-40be-9f85-427e1586e360/how_do_i_activate_my_proform_elliptical_without_ifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://877305ac-a74e-4e93-918f-f866ec7622df.filesusr.com/ugd/0dac30_eb61874fdb2047eb8403eeba631ddea2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f50c350-9bc2-4691-8408-0340055807b9/95309349661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dfc6b9c5-ae66-45a6-bb20-491f466b901b/34546777524.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_off000197fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x197FA 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 065c1cc419ae16b7fd904b385d0b126d969be0bc209c36877278d2e509612c45
font_01_sfnt_off0001aa16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA16 11656 bytes
SHA-256: c9b837c5c32c15dc9b18ff845c11ce0f9e0816e9b553450ac0f2cdcc68e1d058