Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acff884ec23fce4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-03-22 10:50:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 110e0709a7e85971b899f8a6275e8066 SHA-1: cd3a61c9fa97a9023310f355de8461fcbea9501e SHA-256: acff884ec23fce4bb9a76ee48c650a4f0c04476e786f49e6777ae167f2700315
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a title that could be used as a lure to direct users to these malicious URLs.

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=which+is+more+dangerous+sociopath+or+psychopath PDF link annotation
    • https://jibokogemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767321/nixilejopifot_radiderata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lofajemami.sportsontheweb.net/55939831106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulapafux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874232/75fbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lomigakorak.getenjoyment.net/operaciones_combinadas_con_fracciones_resueltas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rilemiwekeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599700/radura_jusogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motozed.scienceontheweb.net/ddi_assessment_test_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nafarami.medianewsonline.com/menunigininabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwulikifem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583505/6320046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salebenokinaka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135963362/vugakuronipe.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/gurafoga/dell_yfg1c_poweredge_r710_t610_power_supply_870w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://161abad2-7de2-49bb-9904-d6e2a620a662.filesusr.com/ugd/2eec94_62481b4aa25044e09cee52ebee82f8a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b21fd41-fb1d-42dd-aa5f-9541239e8d12/97736889633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2386e270-bd20-42c1-b3e5-1ba7eaa1d68d.filesusr.com/ugd/b4f0c6_aa13e134ac8849f18c938a379d09b0eb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://duvipegi.epizy.com/teoria_quimiosintetica_del_origen_de_la_vida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd67c194-76da-4b7e-ad18-be69984f70c0/can_i_sue_someone_for_lying_on_a_police_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawefib.rf.gd/rudoxevopideladosaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fuvidokibet/jimexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2448bd6f-d499-4625-bd14-9bcef1e2b409/zakosuwofofemumifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://507d1b22-ea03-4061-a262-f79425337ca2.filesusr.com/ugd/a374b9_f1764299072a468bbdcd2e009dde0f22.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jawusawar/how_much_does_an_ac_tech_make.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leteraxewe/23119237012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9e1e9198-0fe7-4103-8084-fdcc6befb8d5.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7815_8e6b4582ca674bd0b13982d31fccd003.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_off00012be2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE2 5572 bytes
SHA-256: af285dc307e6644ae1ca19fd09e083a69705a698077440fd21f3fb476b7faa98
font_01_sfnt_off00013eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB9 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 4865d0504fb7653b9e7677f5085fd6c423b4b46f49bb63742e0468787bb5707b