Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf8f42ae3b74633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-03-15 10:41:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7872cf29bd99b1e92164bb6125ea014d SHA-1: ae9c1c5cdabf288e7108259bbb88f306898d254a SHA-256: adf8f42ae3b746332922c2d6251a2b769c6e91d2b891069840d6bfb179e98100
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a malicious SEO or phishing campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards techniques used for distributing malicious content or redirecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=hearthstone+wood+stove+parts PDF link annotation
    • http://avtoshtorki.shop/balufikurafitibawxo65y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402717/normal_603a4fc208c06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajexori.mypressonline.com/complaint_under_section_138_of_the_negotiable_instruments_act_1881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foselosen.sportsontheweb.net/muwadiwovenide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485166/normal_60265d8990f7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creditscorecard.info/neromiragibelalegopuxevegebian.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardcreditcheck.info/adanga_maru_tamil_movie_tamilandalnwxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta24.online/allo_allo_episode_4_season_1juqmg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalmedialit.com/how_to_save_mp3_to_iphone_camera_rollgs4c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komaxinatobofe.medianewsonline.com/supply_chain_management_mba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1580f21e-fc75-4350-9669-3be8b7525729.filesusr.com/ugd/eff6cf_53f2c89fdfad43648a9f26536c617731.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69cf8a46-0d3d-4b71-8fd1-93df925da18e.filesusr.com/ugd/e4064d_1ed251da7aa847d093e7f112e394f8d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e31b828f-dd5d-4b35-abba-5777d5fc2ed6.filesusr.com/ugd/56a8cc_df47ecb3fd2c49b288486ee398e16aa9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3485775d-af35-4505-8fb4-f6750f575e04.filesusr.com/ugd/42f18e_62aed2b1896f4ed7a780e8839139bd73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://af30af13-e0b7-4de0-aca7-7783c01eade2.filesusr.com/ugd/9757e7_5314288163844bc5af7c8b0fe623583b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxemozoxabonag.onlinewebshop.net/types_of_statistical_estimation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juborekif.atwebpages.com/apache_hive_essentials_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4e4301d6-cc9a-4939-960a-6b497c1efea6.filesusr.com/ugd/d78803_58ee511cce7e49a3ac15dd61d98f29bf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9d76d0c6-5807-43ac-a2ba-7b4112d1a20a.filesusr.com/ugd/5cd33b_01a0a0200619474f95900c750d8820dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzemepusiloj.onlinewebshop.net/what_are_the_four_sutras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f29901e-f5c9-4775-879c-97b2de5c8d5b.filesusr.com/ugd/0bf195_5d2289c8d31c41cb88256ff73673d524.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c9c3928-af7d-4195-9e43-9647d7263c15.filesusr.com/ugd/508998_891632c29a3842458ab640dd187e6e92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tipipigi.atwebpages.com/sepsis_3_criteria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_917d83babe874e14ba16b467ed6609f2.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_off0000ecbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBE 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 3a8e3939783721a5a64503ea852bf57f66e47a683c51da0595f2246c6a237bbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a0e59103c112338231b26aa173d1ed02c906b74126fafae1fe8b70501f4ea174