Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab4b7dff8c4f398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-03-24 08:27:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 9d4469e6ca049de914f9012ea00afcfd SHA-1: 25b0e37b16ff0f02790c7e93766a47bd5b005d85 SHA-256: aab4b7dff8c4f39804605f0142c4ef9f02c746de0e4759f312084584cf801409
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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=ordinal+numbers+worksheets+grade+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://guwosifewutus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616196/xivetonerotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudikefasegez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070357/517731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litolojinoforiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134721995/busuzigovagab-jipivolez-disukekikeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujovobima.getenjoyment.net/14628141976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wunadimizurened.medianewsonline.com/soxurugusavisise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebijigubewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770847/326913.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://5548a280-a194-4776-8019-0e256783c1fa.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c1dc_b583187bdc8d42cfaacdf81a50e0d6e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eac5c218-d238-408c-98a6-8ff0ecbb25fc.filesusr.com/ugd/b1277d_bae00386c8ea42249790821559ca8049.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91ca87c2-c493-4616-adaa-fbcec45394e1.filesusr.com/ugd/6116da_62e94ae4c5444d3f91156606699605b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dozuga/chitralahari_video_songs_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://53860ffb-5975-4088-b838-5c82367c2827.filesusr.com/ugd/0d2908_5d01ec17b26944b58f83ef93e2180a0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bukezodebas.onlinewebshop.net/sojekapipigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofujuwo.onlinewebshop.net/number_tracing_worksheets_for_kindergarten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d4180a97-8dd0-4bf1-9e2f-d1b128d1a64d.filesusr.com/ugd/ae059d_5aabaeacd5bb450db67633e00db679b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d102a0f2-001f-4998-bb0a-88ac30ac05b5.filesusr.com/ugd/771ea4_de884bff420f4948a06e63c6a0b3da56.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e7b01ce-91ce-414a-93c5-ade8df4b7359.filesusr.com/ugd/cfbfd2_bbe3bdf0876a4f39845e391e8ae9e993.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://720c7b34-a033-4bf0-83ea-6be17de98aa2.filesusr.com/ugd/03ef8e_1a3cfe45661e4d01a40aa86d08313772.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pojoviraxerojo.myartsonline.com/xafosavenudaxufowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d0275d90-c5b4-4c72-b581-d0e2b62fc6dd.filesusr.com/ugd/ee54da_c6853c833446425dbc5c90443928ec89.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f26e6bca-ce10-4524-9610-ed5ef7c8d48b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac8c68_df3b4eca25f04e658da688b4591a0bb6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xewamejixolefaj/zufisijuxesobufere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d54d55f4-8004-4613-9f19-7b96cbed0ae7.filesusr.com/ugd/ce4b32_74b125bd031c475585d0fe5df8a0f79c.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_off0000f2f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F7 5792 bytes
SHA-256: 57abb31cd3ab736e282f2d013b3bf0e26e138ecaeeaddca4d748c656445c8940
font_01_sfnt_off00010692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10692 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 2efe8070a04de53479c913f705d60126ee86601a4f5fc82fdd123db752b44795
font_02_sfnt_off00012b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B17 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3