Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7707dc1bae490a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.3 KB Created: 2021-03-12 04:51:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: bb25e0b90772e43d2a2d2483e0496ab8 SHA-1: 29c97ab25007f4ae796f1a2b136837fda3797638 SHA-256: b7707dc1bae490a1899242429473faf99ca1d778f0caab2aaea5e337f935b8d9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting services. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used to manipulate search engine results or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=absorption+and+adsorption+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pamaridefudeluz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776324/5b0ec49cb14a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gululujenij.22web.org/the_hobbit_book_mobi_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilulunerokife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135296548/6224773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459621/normal_601ba60a13bc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388629/normal_6000b00572e20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xixekelubijaruj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135329585/nabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366309/normal_5fd29f081cb94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizodifoberesin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900429/dekuserifimeseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikulagoronol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303117/e9bf415b33ee2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasugewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071180/pogugadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felomavemupej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583365/d633e54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wafukereloxajof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311523/tibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://xekifefo.rf.gd/nascar_heat_4_setup_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suxanovovogemi.rf.gd/sifekevoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0703f71b-0b3a-461d-bd79-99a6e6e9a1d7/el_prncipe_maquiavelo_resumen_por_captulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lebejos/52346238739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c90b1672-e505-4291-9db5-38edc047b9f8/78415420517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/likadojivivofu/bevuworagagomosezabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zixupav.rf.gd/terak.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001545a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1545A 4804 bytes
SHA-256: d1413b8f790b3054245c9cfc68b3ecadcf503a8763149ea6b5b5bce7a2069cac
font_01_sfnt_off0001649c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1649C 12904 bytes
SHA-256: e135cbfae68e20fd7b7f5c784a2352ea330202e76f8d944129fcc96f2f8f680a
font_02_sfnt_off00018fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FC0 16100 bytes
SHA-256: dfdc6983d3c42b81f9741fa6cdceaab3e97c1fbda00e6274acf933e6ff911e94
font_03_sfnt_off0001a48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A48B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176