Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8cf0733e241ea59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-06-01 17:50:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: e21df4ff1c4d3148b4e3e4b3016f79e7 SHA-1: 7236cfd5b3e67158391ac042c7b079738c123981 SHA-256: a8cf0733e241ea590343402648d355cf2d8d1b4f1f9082fd4f15d3ee38197e35
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-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://ketchas.ru/pbw?utm_term=laboratory+safety+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://pakefexudexabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969404/sigaziriwuvanani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supipujijasof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739476/1248629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowemubunewoseg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739536/genimefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366044/normal_5ffbb106ecc16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimilofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873947/lavagut-kudatosefaget-kinupakagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisemijosugimuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070246/60c5a27c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472768/normal_6063e40971ae7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460060/normal_5fe90bf246caf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedadizonavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134721040/9a3ed95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peminikagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856713/tizuvotekepi-zuredipivifu-gamalabelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regisaralox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/11a79ec0cc50b7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minikugonon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134500064/add155fa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418579/normal_6039d1fcf3eed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393190/normal_6051ed7f76185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366956/normal_5fe969be6175d.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/8f173999-799a-429b-9c81-e1d28de9fdfb/jemuvixisejivogubibunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0adafd5-342e-472a-ad8e-f42fa22eae31/28974839939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ff47518-3b7a-4abe-9436-91f4ddd14364/kenasesonorirudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/532c97dc-7f79-4e79-8346-27c465df7cc9/94922172551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2b57426-7edb-42d3-84bf-c62bfb7a32ed/what_is_a_fitness_to_drive_assessment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1a77f34-03ba-4b2e-81bc-a794a418fe15/uppababy_vista_bassinet_measurements.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c7a997c-33ec-43fc-915f-86ae7528ef19/why_is_my_iphone_back_camera_glitching.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_off0000cd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD44 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 8630a2ef1a4d065fd4a3c5016febfc91ce7d35587ebffeb55cca5ae99e7c5226
font_01_sfnt_off0000dee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE9 10332 bytes
SHA-256: f30cf559040bd4b7de42462a3ed5f6731f873ab4ad6e488a53832f8f2b8e71c2