Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa001fe2142ce07c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-04-22 08:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 678eefcf3ae3c50525b6b85a0506b5c1 SHA-1: bd1366006054846596d645451dbb983893c56817 SHA-256: aa001fe2142ce07c4eee89493825b6f31a2643b8c66041a955fccee0e7760a2b
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, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a technical issue. The presence of numerous external links, including one pointing to `botokaw.ru`, indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=why+won%2527t+my+hp+pavilion+entertainment+pc+turn+on PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xawodoze/hjjifgf/vamalimevipimawoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/savekedeg/eZJChas/back-_to-_back_acfta_form_e_singapore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/netimupoxojo/igigfs9/bejapotilamanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noneniwetav/cmgfHdA/92823736720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipaxoj.66ghz.com/4890636971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/piwuzuberaze/KdijWjj/loop_yarn_patterns_scarf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/janawezexoj/zigaLMh/flights_to_vegas_from_atlanta_southwest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/defisepeniba/ghiic5k/sad_ringtone_sound_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mexovaru/pgi8NRc/nowokudajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xosuridasago/Hshjpgd/61531352264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dowivita/Lq9gcic/mobile_device_helper_parou_de_funcionar.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/kozewuposoridil/nina_godbole_cyber_security.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bezutu/46205789986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotikozezusigis.rf.gd/colonoscopy_guidelines_age_45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cb70cc59-2297-49c3-b7e2-2ac7e26e28d4.filesusr.com/ugd/4479ed_d0425a9d48f241cea90bae261f98f552.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tezude/adobe_flash_player_10._0_22_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tazopaju/emulator_android_linux_ubuntu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gadumagabusodel/zogigulalexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/degagaziv/vemiferanededi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8df9d1b7-8f6e-49e1-bdac-c9da4d4291fd.filesusr.com/ugd/12c198_95b96ce415874faea2504ffaf116cd70.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f200304d-316b-45a9-b05c-680123ec6d1a.filesusr.com/ugd/aad1a2_a3fc38dbb578432c9f2dab4db02bd63e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xojakejib.epizy.com/nulofubedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixedujegibex/roramiburukovesuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e25b7b56-d8f7-44cb-9276-56428e53d1cc.filesusr.com/ugd/63f3e8_151330c1d49e4cc58aeac2788d0eb9a5.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63F 5296 bytes
SHA-256: f2cdac340b1fc9a1715e0a27fa2a1fec37ffaacca6884b2393362d1a1345f98d
font_01_sfnt_off00010841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10841 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad59a9798868d28515b3c5f41fd165021e1a78009939828115ad8c963b20853