Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b93e41cd6a2b4dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-01-09 18:33:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: d814e88d08a60dfae78027eb14ac185b SHA-1: 9a9ccaf658dc00c923537cec0015ad3dd4a97a9f SHA-256: b93e41cd6a2b4dea74812460ff055ecbaa8c85fb2b7500a6874a26545f4420d2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm operation. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://traffine.ru/aws?utm_term=reporters+notebook+replay PDF link annotation
    • https://vixijusodu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776714/9384101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimuzomidaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353295/6108917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuketuwanez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592446/natitaxexididav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokijovagugudis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776016/c4c27ef7f87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilafewutugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134619215/dosexerorimikawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datokusowijodo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776434/dumufosevemafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369322/normal_5f93b99cbd9d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofowalomutupal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310420/mepuwifisagukanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sopetenoredu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318191/lolisoweropup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pazunorafozide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776571/zixove-tezefopepu-kadusuluzuvesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pujuwofox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882524/lorobiximepije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noromilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587763/9cd3fe4871fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusalunefawotof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134487283/fopudepe-bizaripuzaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bumujonawomete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435367/1e9a3f7a291.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
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xoxaneral/42191823378.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF1 4864 bytes
SHA-256: d4a381a422168bd1e5eee5f2cae6f78a367b0dceb8b2c6fa53a5a6dcc97c7235
font_01_sfnt_off0000e08d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0a4710f83af6c2ade8b48100f939afcf372a03f97e3b6bc1d107bf32f4d94e
font_02_sfnt_off000105a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378