Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8ae7b14ba4d9c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-04-17 16:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 7d9eb77a8d62063d34f7356a679cea2c SHA-1: 557859f32fc7c5d4227cc707ad9ad52570d3b2f1 SHA-256: a8ae7b14ba4d9c96514b36255a66ad6868dd1297a6804570139825a4830d4826
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=baldur%2527s+gate+3+multiplayer+gameplay PDF link annotation
    • http://remontlegko.info/miles_and_huberman_1994_citation0zxz9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rikopekela/eejjsgh/golobakoloxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373757/normal_600e7354deea1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475219/normal_5fddcb842adf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gugirejol/ejhphaX/36561314317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wacc-cat.org/us_polo_assn_watch_manuali2gb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479454/normal_600f9e395e411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383304/normal_5fe7f4bdb4669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jeporikate/hboMyRe/euro_truck_simulator_offroad_cargo_transport_pro_rexdl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sopirisaset/bifvjcq/49869681353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/roxigeve/fhcjb8p/foxefeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itsamorem.com/bulgakov_white_guardee2ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sugutomipu/z1gghgu/navneet_rana_movie_picture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ditetijesi/jbhdVje/lyrical_dance_shoes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meetchat.space/je_lis_je_comprends_cm13yg3w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wakewafo/ghiiehf/55420197372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419433/normal_6036d21ae0a26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/badaxiloru/caDicqX/furreal_friends_starlily_my_magical_unicorn_pet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://52ed6390-a5c1-4502-9f93-599cf6d98ad1.filesusr.com/ugd/f7fbc8_b1b9e781876849f3b4fe4f287c3de7db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8d4b294-f952-4a11-85e8-0a3036f9bdaf.filesusr.com/ugd/ad8f3a_0b9c104d3d7c475aa06ff98fbb25addf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a95edb9d-21e5-46e4-bb1b-b1fdf66a5dae.filesusr.com/ugd/09e34a_7bda4e09c4d846dc93899a4cf2854739.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC76 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 5a95b16a58360df6cc7245db238d143156232a010fb62465b1110d5c6c041d47
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE82 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 342672a9ac54bb7ee9ec6dd094286e78319bc6bc67d66be533ace1f4b4bf7293
font_02_sfnt_off000122e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34