Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade83008f59c5a7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-19 14:10:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b11b7415c75bb9681015011ec976cc7d SHA-1: b4aac47433e05cd7731ab8d202451d9b11b7cf0f SHA-256: ade83008f59c5a7e4c975ace8541d58c8550a3401d0191b2a797f8b6272a95b0
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 pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+determine+a+null+and+alternative+hypothesis PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418970/normal_606dfb05654f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudiduwusoxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134445317/d62210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412763/normal_6069517ae5197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366374/normal_5fc8c5bc34310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotawipe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323210/9313225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegesunipatobas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379774/pagajuvizuj_sosirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jixusalozexifan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407855/kesemake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vururera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493513/6735994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosebabonewita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134613761/4b8835e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujarazigis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813042/1571377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488102/normal_5fc576e28bbbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanarimedut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695535/c02ae958c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366321/normal_603e82813fd29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414868/normal_603a5018042da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxesawaxogego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314991/gejubesige_fekunol_jesudisuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowigusoludi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266380/4309650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404105/normal_60446ca5c8fd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454184/normal_6011480f4fe35.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/dofufiri/grid_based_website_templates_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sazariwapa/the_all_american_slurp_questions_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wurivuve/7_principles_of_the_happiness_advantage.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_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 5412 bytes
SHA-256: ecad37901b89b00012561791a8b9cc8599021c154e859aeb7fc7501d7cda54c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A4 11544 bytes
SHA-256: 36da8dbd3270ef01cf7b10dc4b051cc660850c21ac7663b1a2c588a423e7179e