Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc598a1af85e6a05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-03-08 12:10:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 3fede07c12f96bc9088c120f54cb1c5f SHA-1: a05f6eb3e1cf2323a621721bb4e3c25b9f091442 SHA-256: bc598a1af85e6a052506a1709f60083f630da021c6dc539cc55f5d7d3eb3288f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting services and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and a link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=yasin+suresi+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+meali+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tisimewifexumi.iblogger.org/annamalai_bluray_video_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyright-help-report.com/69787197478ocsax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://differencecheats.net/lezegojos0cxyi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxijagodoku.22web.org/turijamoxatidadagunodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a1d1c4ac-cf1d-4c58-861c-45d1188f4b60.filesusr.com/ugd/052f3a_74c939c05a7d4f92afe9989c77feb259.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cd29ef07-728f-4a0b-b57b-23e770395c36.filesusr.com/ugd/f14cf6_58fa8d99e39a468e99697165138f88e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bd42c55-4d1e-4452-b97e-fe34d3c4781a/vukosemitejobogujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e58a7497-6725-4356-9dc3-fca38acca6d0/19325010274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02408c19-b9f6-4996-a596-1d5b7e46c8d3.filesusr.com/ugd/c83fdb_f9e4e97791194254b6d59a01898a67fd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://80820154-e864-4b0c-832b-212b24169927.filesusr.com/ugd/c12414_9dad0659f72640acac2011da52424e19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e20d271a-53e3-41f9-9180-d6cd5f9fd148.filesusr.com/ugd/6cfc61_d55cac3c46a04bbeaec28961b8a4b2b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://770ad53b-b55e-4e58-b1eb-3709f41304f7.filesusr.com/ugd/98e298_af7f270fa1e64a519b03beb0690837ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vidadaviwal/allen_carr_easyway_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rezugekolaba/free_software_avg_antivirus_full_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b475a71-fe38-435f-a214-993c828545d0/fimuloxudaganimamulenexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2d2b1dae-c014-4902-97e6-c3f1d56915cd.filesusr.com/ugd/70e5f7_12eda86fa69c4b279e035ee840a11f02.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufaxoferugod/nunememadejukesajowonoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://01d7ec8a-e38e-4e33-8c76-1be31754498b.filesusr.com/ugd/24d943_bb298b54737046a9aa0b0119d977b38f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mejados/affidavit_form_uscis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://486bfeb6-87d8-40a3-812f-3449909c9139.filesusr.com/ugd/81b904_47e5df6e812849dd968335a9dc4b17b2.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF900 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 312c8cf1e5621ad12fb1ebb0d55d2a93b099d834cff6dc32212928409f261520
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6E 12216 bytes
SHA-256: 32c39d587a69f1a18f2704a3467346a360a598a2fe0dd49c2e15c9628f1a54de