Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6daea92cf36c7da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-05-17 22:20:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 62be1e2cb647ce5274f980f78665dc63 SHA-1: ed4b35e55a97b3e2c0f2be38905ee92404c8eb58 SHA-256: a6daea92cf36c7da21d284154347b4e03440229df982a1a9cf86aa2865a3e6d1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary URL, https://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=download+journey+to+the+center+of+the+earth, is likely a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. ML and ClamAV detections strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=download+journey+to+the+center+of+the+earth PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488135/normal_604a2c9ec3f0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416299/normal_601f0b6a39c43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418401/normal_600a94db3a516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450438/normal_5fed2f2e6da41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449605/normal_5fe18703655e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevabuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897483/laxugalamorun-gomimipevi-mazodolitogexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufimademum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134236216/tinotili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377933/normal_60450102b2456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425929/normal_603bf7e97fd00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474478/normal_5feaf2df7c8c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450878/normal_601dcc3ac2735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiwitelovig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358902/pesujena_selofeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasevumoxemu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707335/milati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuxewuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134776055/pexopadevipo_sukasatozewezus_kifixa_gatararijugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421200/normal_5ffcbccb478ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368471/normal_5ff92c64ed01b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rirusozo/formel_anlagendeckungsgrad_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/donake/5682832757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vovuzize/zumobazizedope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xixonu/acetone_msds_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jimugivos/canon_mp190_printer_manual.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_off0000cb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB50 5200 bytes
SHA-256: b37e9c98529420f54d1e6e39fac8c9a3e9bcb1dd5bc19c27fcf500e9fb865afa
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD20 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 362e4020c4a9cf6d33642a3e66ea3e8bd799e4bf354a18e55a6fde905c7ed082