Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baaeee1f80e90ed4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-02-18 12:48:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 6abc76d252c7dcc65c7ce85251194b5b SHA-1: ac6c4fe0602664281ad8b378fc284f162a8fd6d2 SHA-256: baaeee1f80e90ed452566548434e609bfdfb4ae00a1e51883044e2c3ec52ecd5
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to 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://jacksth.ru/aws?utm_term=strength+training+exercises+for+beginners+at+home PDF link annotation
    • https://gesunewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438127/loporogotirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutagabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325028/177362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutizadip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889078/lagexabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xulawajikigi/gihcjeB/povasipidipovurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uscreditreport.info/que_es_la_santa_misa_y_cuales_son_sus_parteszudh2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobeluke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318189/91ec0691028df5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesitalia.fun/signing_naturally_ebookimxc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup154.fun/rejifaloxanjitwl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofemazavuson.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303373/322207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujabimebedegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234846/3267839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dibevapanowodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776811/tiregojalazij_wiwufotet_solumeb_dofodamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsamcctv.com/annotation_symbols7523u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xolesozetenosox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070434/buxafafikirok-fatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemavepudobug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108610/gowegaruwuzuxusododi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robugagemo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304688/mavupebukesi_wixipufusuz_zefibozixup_kejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezofugowura/hic3icL/cute_ringtones_free_download_zedge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pumonufagatoteb.epizy.com/hl7_cda_implementation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupivet.epizy.com/guideline_subarachnoid_hemorrhage_aha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikumekomem.epizy.com/android_8_in_dragon_ball_super.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vawawuresojuwu.rf.gd/xopiril.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_off0000eb04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB04 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 4b16125b5ddea65f956284f195278e58e00396953a1bb8a50328e85e2a0c9001
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD6 10444 bytes
SHA-256: c42b6b55d975204cd34653831dff2a706fa727075da71c1453378eca4a1aae42