Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b29e79b3077cc131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-03-21 09:04:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 3eb672571177454687a657a724efe8fd SHA-1: 2e617d5604a205b95027cb8950c9ea161286c548 SHA-256: b29e79b3077cc1313a69ce1e10826549afd9141953743f49da0b3df5b9a803c3
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. This, combined with the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging, strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely to lead to credential theft or further malware infection.

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=iota+amharic+bible+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezakagadol/jdQYLmP/army_gd_admit_card_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sologavabo/rghidjg/apple_music_download_macbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zosurinipin/j7Upluk/3940570926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://busiwilepajij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353274/sobawuxalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/riwoxedaki/jgoijgt/lawine_report_tirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuvowiraxuf/gdjariD/30781330109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotarivinevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599250/588672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fijajiles/gkgdmQJ/78903033908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fimekubolutad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585071/taxutijarajomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towowiwegopute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134019464/kipazag_zatemed_sabironujojeze_rovunemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/malevevipali/diaggh8/robotics_notes_switch_double_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wijelukifap/gft3heY/sigujaxudomiselupowetase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gurawibozogudex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739732/zipinedina_vebipamorowejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59dd1a7f-ff4c-44a8-bd3d-74d00ec29204/2020_uglys_electrical_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ac9d038-517d-4536-97f6-676423289421.filesusr.com/ugd/b444d4_7b58d33544484e0ca19df42a9e1f7093.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ed7c29b-d5f2-4290-8b47-add6aa38300d.filesusr.com/ugd/32a223_fac280dace814b09ba37fb172797fec9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b3709dad-42f4-4621-9b7e-74d31ca978cd.filesusr.com/ugd/f91cf1_90ea942775b1491b94dde95eaaa54358.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5de711ad-9d9b-40af-8a98-dd840f16aca6/50914750006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://73e25548-3913-4bbb-aa69-a1b25f69568d.filesusr.com/ugd/cece23_cf5c900ee13248ab932a3121d5df9394.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_off0000e108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE108 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 6147915b02b9ceb0e128bfe11fc4656fd6619b51e9a89e2fa0ae7e32668eadb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 1b80782d2d1c97ec3725e066452e35349205377645abc5378ed0cd70680cafa6