Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae53a424861cdd38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-05-20 13:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2a814941fde43686c9b4383190a46465 SHA-1: 24ac14759e2ccfd0498301a71813f7fcddc0ad1c SHA-256: ae53a424861cdd38217a6f89576a5aad8be275c61fa6f9e592267f6b8fd1f5f5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs likely lead to further malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=heroes+vs+monsters+siege+crash+reddit PDF link annotation
    • https://watumuguv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695830/zesenirumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terifebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815785/7100159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lopufofogepuxal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695200/5031ff7599e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409096/normal_60510234cac20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatedubajepe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371970/xopavi_budedejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sozobuxetezubu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527793/nibamazivukepabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xagujefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749278/6247211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382413/normal_601d53f5ba604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392660/normal_5fe76743015c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428043/normal_604f6282ece1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385437/normal_5fe4c54f222a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453908/normal_60194d5a0ac24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4372963/normal_5fe0d57433595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dekitinuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871397/6303449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinupumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893056/34d8c56229e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476302/normal_6040312470a70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446914/normal_60070c2935cd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goginaderexikez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306094/57b6bf1bc929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403533/normal_6011485804914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://potijesidademut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351663/1268907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukelubaluwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134741361/95ec7ff098478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gusumadanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695601/ae3abe1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pawomasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134737305/64383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000eca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA1 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 52e62fe8775c6b26f21ddf65f3bb2dedd86270b7dc7239da54d54c0d886ac8f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA1 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 89752472f9e0349ac6adf3ba0ddd2b2ee01fd5d2ea1e9ba791a8c3cbf42fd639