Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7d4f309824f8d21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-02-20 08:23:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: cd1960e230cad164f0750a1375e12ab9 SHA-1: aa966f6bf7f3c69c6c1c9cbd21b388056f779186 SHA-256: b7d4f309824f8d2152750bec6eb77ae0bef164bc264a04ff4d9a2e877d069ca9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=vivofit+jr+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://ch-redirect.icu/61762280467ybgdx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vamunidibu/utjcGji/daily_planner_habit_tracker_goal_organizer_gtd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fadanade/hdibiic/crime_mysteries_find_objects_match_3_puzzle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnatural.space/lebugotamerigodizuzojmc1h1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasezarovatif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134858127/deboraxelutovitaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fikobovivinuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739062/fodaporixonow-sokifirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raifaisentgo.online/21239039711tfo76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbcua.site/brick_breaker_deluxe_androidixiry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuveleni/OA9jajf/bugs_bunny_no_picture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mowanideju/5soKpij/best_photo_collage_software_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/soxuxopova/SJjajc6/little_boy_haircuts_longer_on_top.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn 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
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xisefowu/fl_studio_android_old_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zesotat/hotel_voramar_formentera_spain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/folexapurilowe/88789444540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gomaxod/wubulofutidesajuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/waxegatulo/bal_brahmachari_movie_mp4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiwuxot/8265391074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xasovewipeje/ps2_games_for_ps2.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000e195.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE195 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 210cfd4ce2902bd115e70a9befdf6526e4ac7b7f9c8af6cc81e9f9487e9ebda7
font_00_sfnt_off0000d37e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37E 4136 bytes
SHA-256: d69084990b41e305295b452acdf4d9a719f80e8479be6b2a1bcc81f356f5bc48
font_02_sfnt_off000101b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B3 11948 bytes
SHA-256: bb75dc3bf742773ae3b57153b5dfd129f6fbad0817cbcea5293c0e240a25ac67
font_03_sfnt_off00012997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12997 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3