Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b716184594ae56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-03-17 18:52:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 52b1335ea94de1918b14fadd2a854ff7 SHA-1: dba9731fbd907dcaf9249cf31cd9d800c4848f5c SHA-256: a6b716184594ae56fcd5b553253ef53d8ddfa045271ca8e924d9c01b32d90cce
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or disposable hosting, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier also strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Tutorial autocad architecture 2020' to entice users to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=tutorial+autocad+architecture+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://alkim.xyz/migewakinevimoxa9eav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umkatrade.ru/87575076867q1kbl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipatovaalena.ru/what_is_a_deed_of_trust_documentkghmu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebay-coupon.ru/92099902922oo6k1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pubgmobiie.com/cant_connect_to_brother_wireless_printergqaq4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titanof-filtr.ru/osi_reference_model_and_tcp_ip_modeluscim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aycotoro6.xyz/962220260588ba33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freshmind.net/95029385984df1j0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://729282ec-1290-4cbc-9302-cf8a24acd4c7.filesusr.com/ugd/42c189_2d4034176f434576bc74ed5a5a23721c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cccbd1ff-15f7-491b-8c8f-c14bafe16c89/66994819040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vebenok/guidelines_for_management_of_malignant_pleural_effusion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e758cf00-2bcb-4cdb-9609-1c5a09f3a28f/tri_tronics_classic_70_g2_transmitter_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/najipavez/57774258456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zopenave/87417148152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58e42006-7db1-4d0f-a242-ec0323fa3f04/26920247871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0189661-ab73-492f-8d66-70f0e3bd70ac/navy_job_hunting_leave_instruction_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71694676-d9ef-4893-8130-abca3dd9379b/best_speakers_for_audio_technica_turntable_lp60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/veraxawewib/pofekusikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_8857277e202949fba53ff26a262cb3d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b50bbd05-e8a0-4f7d-8a8d-bfe840b529ad/stryker_electric_stretcher_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff76b156-0898-499b-b8ea-9d78a65cbe4a/2793404764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6d10be7-1b05-48e0-b07b-c7963b893c49/jesse_tree_ornaments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3eac7ab5-d7c0-44ea-8abb-878a2238ee79/fipopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d1ee23ee-9ccf-45b0-80ef-1e1ff1f657c4.filesusr.com/ugd/9ef0c3_52f9cf0f8f0d4726a4edb709f23da8ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/faduxodiwo/7632532003.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_off0000d3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BB 5072 bytes
SHA-256: ea1e6e71f266eb210a66d95f9f8c005a320bfea83d61a769cfa0891fde3220d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E9 9604 bytes
SHA-256: 77ff3962ca16d7d986671a0a4b4d950c1169d04a85bf72e37987d4ced605aa16