Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaa188f884e45958…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-02-22 07:13:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 93b94f1ae218d0c4f25d3e5e6c677d68 SHA-1: 38197c49f690c79c929ce9bbdb8f5b3c2f14f17b SHA-256: aaa188f884e4595878529c8ed7631c0e7582da120dceda8abbb69560769b8271
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains or link farms, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=7+rings+song+lyrics+meaning+in+hindi PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jotoselu/WhbJ6id/roman_war_3d_rts_units.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jusodizepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070216/gurivoviga_xilizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gepeduvo/fgdhfhe/homeopathic_first_aid_kit_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkkirrreeee.space/college_algebra_sample_questionsdxtgh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junezafebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874287/6991078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wugumelejemumaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324079/rabogat_zisulamezijaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonawuxuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776103/1515068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renobikedasel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897329/1704407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiviluluje/igYichg/zuwowozaweladol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bopibege/9ijfhc3/talisman_meaning_in_tamil_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safagiko.iblogger.org/python_pandas_basic_commands.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vavesojijakoju.iblogger.org/38193293471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/waxubisolo/iFggijG/17587656447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pedamajemekiju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380885/kepazuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujipiledulom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695719/dejafudujijamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tedipokexumo.epizy.com/psalm_23_meaning_kjv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renaxodemebi.rf.gd/holika_holika_pure_essence_mask_sheet_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wulimazef.epizy.com/sql_server_2016_express_offline.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4ED 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 865c2a68877510a0d2f60f96118ced09932a3a6a8790a670e18cededf0b6f2c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF742 4564 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1e10d2a449d65f16dbc6504515718aafe2b917d76683da61b54361652c0700
font_02_sfnt_off0001087d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087D 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 7236697c5b912573c3236403f24712dc2b751698aee56263e009b2013d7a4955
font_03_sfnt_off00012d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D37 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 9559dd1bd908241551916101fda3d445a26f5c4b506a1423f23393456f9d5940