Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade2582b6d073007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 17:58:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9d9ed5bad9a08cff0c61c904989a9fc3 SHA-1: cebc982ab71d45bbe91fd594bfeae9dd00b7047d SHA-256: ade2582b6d07300783835633a13a714d61ae2542f7350de65baf9286aef65ec8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and potentially malicious domains, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded document body text appears to be corrupted or irrelevant, but the overall structure and URL distribution point to a link farm attack.

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=a+street+cat+named+bob+trailer+espa%25C3%25B1ol PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letinumi/bpihghk/common_bacterial_infections_during_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filfex.ru/how_to_use_bluetooth_headset_with_cisco_ip_communicator6ihav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golakabuzoved.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134870140/gejobekas-nakufematev-nokodifi-fexajigorizasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup153.online/95594988434ign0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnikator.ru/57754341228n4n8u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieverts.xyz/skymet_weather_report_for_mumbai_maharashtrauhuou.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lagolipumepi/hhIifju/adamic_covenant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinnipoh.fun/audi_a4_b6_owners_manualzbycz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lexijunibul/hfgigh7/naughty_boy_lyrics_sam_smith.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banetopebored.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874573/sumaximoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fojizejoxu/w57iGif/world_history_quiz_36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/laxefotogulo/iMKhegf/how_to_draw_cartoons_step_by_step_lessons.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/365c6682-e937-4032-90c7-5ec1bb684cde/wemaxatuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d55a8c09-928b-4c1f-b0c5-3c6f134ea49b/34801520548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/392af95b-6b90-4904-92ae-ac614cff98cb/ge_cafe_gas_ranges_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/16e92862-dcf0-4adc-b93b-372bb72c8d51/84785532715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6bdbd5af-4dea-4a89-8451-7a4c75f57c40/sony_a350_camera_charger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/74ed9089-e6a8-414b-92d3-1d68e40d5302/craftsman_yts_3000_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7fbf0b40-bd50-4696-ba46-36e357bd9cb9/90752811540.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_off0000d329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD329 5560 bytes
SHA-256: e93a1abf5d78618fa4c1d3207f40abdfb0cd8a2bfd389d575af46f0dc9c0dca0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B3 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c8b06eaf91bd849f297acc40fd6a667b67c33c0a3ae5a93faa85f2168d9f176a