Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4222666cf6dd642…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-03-30 08:33:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 409dabc7a7a0cc47441cf258855e2037 SHA-1: 9c922280c7bb852626121343d36201c496dd03c7 SHA-256: b4222666cf6dd6422a7cc4e97080dd1da52d3ee1a8655e7ea6fe13cafbe05fde
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and phishing. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of links, with one pointing to 'http://fagewoxe.epizy.com/76072189757.pdf'. The primary external URI 'https://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=encyclopedia+judaica+vol+18+pdf' suggests a lure to disguise the malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a malicious document, likely a phishing or downloader attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8218

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=encyclopedia+judaica+vol+18+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471249/normal_600cae5019a9d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470962/normal_604d9962e6997.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491151/normal_605dc6eaeb76f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421056/normal_5fd0d5731d3d0.pdf
    • http://bovuwitinix.22web.org/vawixopodomupamibawufemoz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://fagewoxe.epizy.com/76072189757.pdf
    • https://8717ace1-8174-44a1-9f98-e7cbf9e9ed94.filesusr.com/ugd/14e3be_ea9660933b0e48d882e26b8cbf6fc3f4.pdf?index=true
    • https://d5e9a058-cbdc-4968-ba72-30cdbf1e36a3.filesusr.com/ugd/9cfd0a_bb0aad6c3f4848adb1da56e42a805a66.pdf?index=true
    • https://5fdaa9e0-ad6d-443b-8779-beb8e45026dc.filesusr.com/ugd/05301a_067ae4eb55ad4411bb07df9ba24c3dc0.pdf?index=true
    • https://ee60c613-3dd1-430d-b711-08e3dcbf0273.filesusr.com/ugd/19ce5d_6975db57945c40439457aa549cd58ddc.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/godewumazek/top_omatic_cigarette_machine_problems.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vososasoxumete/39715492704.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf9ad2cc-306c-4046-94fa-bc1512105bfc/fortran_77_tutorial.pdf
    • https://d670dda7-df53-4ef1-8eda-d3256df28744.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbbec_bf6402cc03f54c28982cb8be1f02173d.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sazixipame/maytag_maxima_front_load_washer_reviews.pdf
    • https://ac09d6fb-20d1-47e2-97cb-2568fc137cdf.filesusr.com/ugd/03dcd4_44d418a5b2ec405f90b5491318b4da4c.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinilederu/free_flowchart_template_google_docs.pdf
    • https://76f5a3e5-08d8-4581-9975-6c1b933a1845.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbd16_f2f733dc9eda4700bcbe1cf7a699920d.pdf?index=true
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012ce3.bin
a7a7c0794789ac059ad35c60afab62f74a15585b5d71a2c3af6904b012dc8e83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE3 5316 bytes