Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae219f092594e70a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-03-31 15:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3d73f84c6df73435bd8c9b7fc516c17b SHA-1: ea2d0b92b2d9001ee70197c32d185fea31ec471a SHA-256: ae219f092594e70ad86faad5b421a000d5977a44e6bd9bccad29f6e45f2ade7f
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of a URL related to 'whatsapp for android apk latest version' indicates a lure for software downloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=whatsapp+for+android+apk+latest+version PDF link annotation
    • http://navevukosuso.mypressonline.com/pipelunazazodejumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bujasugawo/ifIZgc1/17019865465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiziwafofekaku.mygamesonline.org/not_using_the_word_very.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokezokebawi.mygamesonline.org/wibilumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/movumatoz/Ljfjb01/torn_acl_in_knee_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jenireni/jhhYjjh/96017170097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxowopiv/40bMgcv/cars_3_characters_green_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazalefofano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134578352/9842106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasanisig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739318/6630991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454672/normal_5fefa255b6d19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470545/normal_5fe2cbf4aa3b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fagilef.getenjoyment.net/marketing_agency_portfolio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://de2ee6d5-caaa-4265-b15c-40100ab77d99.filesusr.com/ugd/d43733_114ae2f45a7a4deab5d887cd47c61c2b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4a1cfc67-5981-466d-a13b-75576fe7431f.filesusr.com/ugd/64e449_deab8abca9a5472a8f87cb83bca5530d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e61e9f85-32c5-4861-9fd4-b89109084c35.filesusr.com/ugd/2e4eb4_9c8a36e02da445a6a785fdca0df3b33f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://101c3d73-5e22-4da1-a203-a3a2a794ce88.filesusr.com/ugd/69a512_79bb46837532450194a67dff19cf12d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2a497570-3881-454f-aefc-229a18bbdf22.filesusr.com/ugd/83e24f_de08abdd8ccf4f55b8339b164be93113.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a6047d18-b57f-4fdc-88fa-dea7715a8642.filesusr.com/ugd/189347_39bdec6b7b9344deb9d0b9baeecaab46.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ziwivazud.onlinewebshop.net/ghost_in_the_machine_saying_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f8340159-69ce-4309-ac43-521e9a8475b4.filesusr.com/ugd/bc0b97_516f8559ff984672aedb45268157c6f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://538d8494-0c7d-401a-b890-0485f6bc7bca.filesusr.com/ugd/29c71c_ec7f77e4a96d4488ada8a8877450a066.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://19d8af67-ac20-4a7c-8ffd-69be953788a8.filesusr.com/ugd/578741_33941b2d2cd2450bbc20824ba4b875d2.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_off0000fe24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE24 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff664f5504b52afe608070ff707c679cec2e52ace3bc40ecae08572d2aa7705
font_01_sfnt_off00011018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11018 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 3b370de62cf08567aa0c1285747f0ab7bd57bba453485cb85133deb9374e747e