Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba5e43a9a127a8c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-04-06 19:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f983a07a79fdec4b22fe90b0a1496105 SHA-1: 2302a5ef3f32c2dcefb7768602da7c7f419bb795 SHA-256: ba5e43a9a127a8c6e8c7e19b0bbd250c3f8cb3ffce02e0cf7d5df1dfb2196e3b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to drive traffic or host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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/award?keyword=muscles+of+the+body+anatomy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragonujip/hhierGk/sims_4_jungle_adventure_temple_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zokuwagopole/jKjajcB/tiguwesimatozugotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xemugugafot/zbGXgcI/vabunopet.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f54faba4-54b2-4a0e-af5a-c58e713ae871/sex_and_the_city_reboot_new_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40d2506a-18e1-4238-9544-c09d88c475cc/how_much_sugar_in_dunkin_donuts_creamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0223d778-a2c3-47ce-8d53-042432b409a6/zuzarireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e976458a-469b-4afb-83d0-7bd7333e8893/what_are_the_art_disciplines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://899154e9-876a-4ab4-94d5-c8ef2aed10f2.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf9ad_bf3bb73e9e674710a1f2f5c8352b7e38.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1f9cfe0c-d655-4514-b58a-75380282e405.filesusr.com/ugd/d31784_82b69e15185d4b50b925647d1f93943f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c3bf511-6e36-4e39-b1f8-58ce0b1d6ed1/what_size_is_an_apartment_size_refrigerator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://96a9e3af-f0c3-4048-9e6c-0ad8da3c6018.filesusr.com/ugd/15d534_dca4d43e062643f6aaf64c993beb4f28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9f8271c7-3df6-4d23-ae39-c194db9078d1/python_set_operations_complexity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92790828-2d56-457f-82a1-ca632660f542/easy_reading_comprehension_worksheets_for_1st_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ffdd24b-620b-4f4d-94ef-a39da1ca20bd.filesusr.com/ugd/853ce2_34ce1d52a35143c8a4cbff53c2af07cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a1359116-1358-4cde-afc5-3600b4bb50db.filesusr.com/ugd/3b0c81_f7570edbb8cb4d97a17d6b4bafac26d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0b8f06b-4e98-4d3d-89ef-2f08caba629a.filesusr.com/ugd/0c8cc8_396f9cd29e4b4338a8d50614d063ae42.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fac30f9c-1bc3-4ff6-ac40-7ced1d2a170b.filesusr.com/ugd/3b7182_9c689d0c87744f22976f34bb97b564a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e082cb0d-9c22-4a21-acb7-e2c6127a51d3.filesusr.com/ugd/ff0c06_e197f44a38cc48a4b33df30ace01d51a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c5dd1bf-323c-430c-b0bd-14f84651558e/wunijakibinora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1aad5ef3-1030-4769-8db4-020624c6db13/a_fair_days_pay_for_a_fair_days_work_quote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://73c25812-7308-4b32-b985-10e2a25710ca.filesusr.com/ugd/5b604d_4a77b94ed4a8485db5f94c920d229981.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c80ec68-95bb-458f-92a1-a41b041b6539/last_of_the_mohicans_1992_film_location.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_off0000fcc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC3 5380 bytes
SHA-256: c0160eeb912019a7e6d26d80221ddab0e6ce1facb5111d8c6e0d6c57d97343b8
font_01_sfnt_off00010eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEB 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 77ee8990c57064943d281b2d7d4720b9f47c4a0dd8738206f14d3bfd889361aa
font_02_sfnt_off00013203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13203 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f