Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4dddf93a65c7363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-03-10 03:17:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4e5a25c57893f05d0c5a7e252f1c510b SHA-1: 7717d96a45ef9297d0ae060e5c8bfb67684d9fcb SHA-256: b4dddf93a65c7363a7a9328913bfadd9c9ade93cd7f2543825c336c9e71e6f07
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV signature and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs, with one notable URL being https://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=when+should+i+use+pointers+in+c%252B%252B. The PDF structure and embedded content suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, aligning with phishing or content distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=when+should+i+use+pointers+in+c%252B%252B PDF link annotation
    • http://springital.fun/how_is_semiconductor_maderxvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366632/normal_602949c2440f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramuwesitavoz.mywebcommunity.org/tapilobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465908/normal_5fd8eedcc4b2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marotebage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712984/kabitebonipu_sivusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dinorega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999175/xodanenivugegunaxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457839/normal_603c11b850095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulusujubige.mygamesonline.org/metodologia_de_la_investigacion_caracteristicas_del_conocimiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejinaya.com/23124202122qdgh3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496582/normal_5fd3164710a95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371025/normal_5fdb2d9431a79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onatural.space/sat_practice_test_1_math_no_calculator2pr95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowopezamiw.medianewsonline.com/words_that_start_with_eu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tupadutuxoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135974222/kinodamaxan.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/9d74e60e-df22-441b-b308-d08a180fcc83/xing_yi_quan_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25245118-aab9-4d36-b220-3bbd4671b5ec/whirlpool_duet_washer_error_codes_f02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1cb7cba1-3043-4851-a4ef-8647ee8eebf6/2010_chrysler_town_and_country_ac_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1bb9866e-23da-470e-bd08-a3a5d8d54fd9/84751299735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zorijefugixor.atwebpages.com/easy_piano_songs_for_beginners_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24b93dc0-c513-4e84-868b-da19d516da51/46655338945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8472aacb-b8f9-4df4-9b2e-8067c4210dd3/larivesasobalufiworaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99a7c886-ab11-4179-9a90-0f5cf217ddc7/fusagavibinodibupakaxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/439128c2-4027-4c7d-9ba1-6cf78278a5db/feradonad.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_off0000edc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC0 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 66c6295ec646fbb38d99f1858a12caea4813f9d2815f060306cceb24229da8cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000feac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAC 11352 bytes
SHA-256: fe378503ea096c701b47d048250fee28b3fe4b3dec8ce95417d141694d7efe0f