Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b204539c1fc2247b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 06:26:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 3b29364228be04a367e8cd4aac6ab38e SHA-1: 529b2c38c0f2d63151a45a47500e9c97b6e4fdb5 SHA-256: b204539c1fc2247b8da8df20d226ace86ca8a0fd004955cf838759b652362c62
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically using a 'browser extension/update installation' social engineering tactic. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to execute further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/wix?keyword=fisher+price+skyway+race+track PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383806/normal_5fed402e86eef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485004/normal_600ac6cf1d5aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workbykoder.xyz/36751086757jopld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vseti.life/happy_birthday_punjabi_song_djyoungsteryf8en.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387037/normal_6022cded573a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itravelimpressions.com/sixisufuxoperazeraninhac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453336/normal_5fc9eb8a9f05d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458148/normal_603721c952220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5c3e38fa-bf2d-4cda-bfdc-19e9a39f2227.filesusr.com/ugd/b3ada4_447a77d5a0554e5aaf96ed299e0dae7b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zejuruk.rf.gd/bullet_raja_movie_song_ming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbba0f06-1911-40f0-8c80-a2638c7f81cc.filesusr.com/ugd/b13fd1_c900a9cc22f34c7a9b4915be828dcf2b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bf12a17-ac2b-4dc8-b540-bb60a97c1ab3/defiant_motion_security_light_blinking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e5baaea7-7007-41de-9367-4ebf3ed55875.filesusr.com/ugd/8e1900_2edd06c2c8a24b39947152cb78ae39a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lamumabazekutum.epizy.com/algonquin_park_trail_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://451b78f8-089e-4d4d-bc4b-60abb621f7e6.filesusr.com/ugd/7ef0dc_a01838b9e90442669d679885189a3246.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b321a86-0615-40a7-b684-6dced782f4cc.filesusr.com/ugd/e3cae3_4fd33fabfa0849a7b38f7f2f46ced8f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tegajapo.rf.gd/4256218782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5afef03e-9206-4b8e-beac-9d5ca8960e8f/sexisivamugimikifewal.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_off0000f7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D3 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 2a7ab980498d2239ae316b3d60a06fee02c894c0c337e3a5082c9b3603d4201d
font_01_sfnt_off0001099b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099B 10284 bytes
SHA-256: bbc69685c16e6a5c7e7e5f1504e2dadfad5cad6ad9a831a277085b7bb5396c17