Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0949f8d7df4a8dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-03-19 16:29:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f130f92850e1f968e3c7450821c883e5 SHA-1: b02fcb90b0021182ff35d9ddfca5f843a0124eb5 SHA-256: c0949f8d7df4a8dc0fc34717c4bef7957e4ceeca837302d8dbb58141202092e1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, which is characteristic of a link farm or SEO spam. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute these links.

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://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=questoes+resolvidas+de+analise+combinatoria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xapidomin.mywebcommunity.org/bugaboo_cameleon_3_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412151/normal_5fe4e1a5d439f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bewirupudafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607000/6b1932fcdad91a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405186/normal_5feb704bf060a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamewubi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303354/zevixofodepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikewexer.scienceontheweb.net/rotusolefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385021/normal_60418cfbd1fef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanesibib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134591449/518232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404290/normal_601ba7f8cc025.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://f3b8d348-8566-49c9-a9f8-a2c3b9e1bc8e.filesusr.com/ugd/f1c748_049af43b6c4047a9912de5a5eaa593f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a924e678-c020-40a9-9492-3c4e56bd145b/kimarutokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perexuwofogefo.onlinewebshop.net/26622888410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7e005a1c-fb68-43c1-af83-b854b6a2d282.filesusr.com/ugd/dcfb95_3fdab05e5f224e6ca3d00e1d2b4de490.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2ca39aa-d788-4d4c-8f0b-423a112f722e/my_samsung_refrigerator_is_not_cooling_or_freezing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb096752-d0fa-4e2c-a93a-90f6af0ac797/bojawafizigetusibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf543b24-be8e-47f6-9266-b83cc28076b1/mujikimimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe50c967-ba7f-4137-a083-3f440bba95a1/66595123299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77d8e88f-8118-43dc-88cb-be1571a06ec5/78262463731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/218cafd8-8f7e-44ea-a1d4-71d54e4b5a4a/organisational_behaviour_textbook.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_off0000e6a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A3 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 62262f99240a449d0741bbc9ba4558015181207404c6b57bfdc1376fc0763248
font_01_sfnt_off0000f908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF908 13064 bytes
SHA-256: 4eeb2349960da17ff1a1d00fc525f5cd85f5112e80b50a017c10baa7b3db51e9
font_02_sfnt_off000121ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e