Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1b0d70d53fe8f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-03-12 00:35:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1ecdcc2c86ca17a6f742bb718ae3a3bd SHA-1: b2a33ddca4f7a56133a9004be03185ad79617d01 SHA-256: ae1b0d70d53fe8f4c94a292199117ffa9ab2b4ea3c8ebcd5b618ce4316a7a2a6
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, forming a link farm. It also presents a lure for a 'protected by Am' document, directing users to a link that likely leads to further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake encrypted/secure-document view lure high SE_ENCRYPTED_DOC_LURE
    Document claims to be an encrypted or protected file that must be opened through a 'secure view' link, and the action link uses deceptive infrastructure. This is the secure-document credential-phishing carrier: the page imitates a secure-mail / document-cloud gate while the link leads to a harvesting site. action link to abused redirector.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/award?keyword=amar+ujala+news+paper+today+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ravemazezaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885195/dizetu-gonoxutajedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxufaxunixepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584211/nununajebeleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binemipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874238/bunijeripapevodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutuwupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378820/futabazivitiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaxixeresez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871416/1746128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxorumele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969728/6018251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393911/normal_5fda1dab4919c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polavimiwusirew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681763/9111979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463809/normal_5ff2d2013d558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerolukemotib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874115/4915269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454811/normal_5fc80c07d8c04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusitibepilezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437978/bevikakegifiduvemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wifevotus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897576/73d2ac83c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadewasugidaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775384/defikuzovivopuzapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413846/normal_5fd9caaa2d3a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f3874c2d-c116-49c2-b7b6-9300dc8fc43e.filesusr.com/ugd/b11f6d_6d8181abad6d4f8e8b5868b7fb218342.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://20996a60-9695-4f45-8fdb-44bdc783da55.filesusr.com/ugd/c57cae_9967b93306924af18798c30d2078d1e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb38ef3f-1f2c-4622-8962-dca261660167.filesusr.com/ugd/3ae201_c036ad617f2f4b0aa9266a0d33ca546b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wufujudisu/davibaxevinamexapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a983b51-2e13-4971-8c1f-a5bca3ab4353.filesusr.com/ugd/e1a791_f947e75636564aa79f7c220737b26061.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sejakopa/10716764400.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_off0000e67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67B 5444 bytes
SHA-256: d206c45e1386b487166e562bc001b6d910478eacfe7538a97b4d74daf3188df8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF903 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 1969b1b2eb1d709a9143cc3d4a99e8bb864e00da205c3dac729c696622abf125