Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a888aeb973d0d6be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-03-19 12:27:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 89b8c795c3472658d5c0fa9d980d4d44 SHA-1: f787014ecad5a45a7ab3d448937846cc7bf92216 SHA-256: a888aeb973d0d6be55bbfa3a122960352d6d326c47c3588b839cc310b5dfa674
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. Several URLs point to disposable hosting and are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • 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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=revista+natura+ciclo+9+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://retowukiri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592720/gafadefuzodevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482218/normal_5ffc07e94ce8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403806/normal_5fd60f548a008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirutobij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776617/41af93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448733/normal_5ffef938ab3ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451563/normal_6031272718ab3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490529/normal_6033f6a1c3307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369901/normal_5fec2e9b8b794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotarivinevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599250/6c86bbb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369933/normal_5ff1d13cc3b03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sopebanodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017095/foxef.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/1bc770ef-b45a-4456-a1ca-3922c63116f0/adobe_premiere_pro_cc_2020_free_download_for_lifetime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dumupa/dumeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/feseni/zeminewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e53708b-e155-4160-a409-64940165cb17/soccer_clubs_for_8_year_olds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sojebelevenex/71552477710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb5b2965-e2c2-4d53-9e65-31d4677d33c0/jopufavodibawajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29770e49-613a-4ad4-b8d9-388842bd0b9f/craftsman_digital_multimeter_82082_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sewamos/69415256273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a926d075-c9ea-4d52-beb6-996d3ceaa40b/what_is_steak_tartare_in_french.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67e5aabd-741f-4ac2-bfd7-5cef4258bd90/how_to_set_a_4_station_orbit_sprinkler_timer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38501671-f407-4c29-9812-47d2d9e330b4/rujiwozuvudusolujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a396fd6b-db05-4663-a82d-a70a39e06aa3/craftsman_front_tine_tiller_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mexavofezoxi/captivate_us_performance_track.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d38c3cc-9cf8-49cb-bde9-3abb5d654766/why_do_rich_countries_keep_getting_richer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45c41563-0877-48f0-b375-367745c6a0b4/nelibekololozawozoruda.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_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 5648 bytes
SHA-256: dc4ebe441f13810a7c4a4748852203f52154b18ec6c7a0d71c9ef4a14d315069
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D5 12408 bytes
SHA-256: e1a1e5f34d61575559abb29c57bf12b53750edf3851750b350fe34de0427d980