Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c13b676979aea48c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-03-31 10:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 29801499046fa22e4361745d3c2de87e SHA-1: 68e9032c50e00d13c16cfa7aeb78f141a39f23d8 SHA-256: c13b676979aea48cc012a852cd07d3282d275b0bde61dd6b29e8fef05eccc07d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to other PDF documents. The presence of these links, particularly on disposable hosting and with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution are indicative of a phishing or SEO spam campaign.

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=area+and+perimeter+of+sectors+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://duxapekekabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381277/3388551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468843/normal_5ff13ff710082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujanumijixedi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501714/995437895a8bd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patajafurep.mywebcommunity.org/momagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vujaroroxino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314625/8016441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472213/normal_6059b41161a37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374536/normal_5ff27c9399ba4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wotasabe.22web.org/23823335357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://besugadofozoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135396803/5244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://famalekirujapa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453917/jidukarexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoluwofemofuper.sportsontheweb.net/nuwobofipisefujomexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404980/normal_60522b18efacc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowedoditigivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134714126/jefowifa-mezamumelazuw-dovos-nujabolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelapelumu.iblogger.org/bikipawoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevenunoxesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341304/8441698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493245/normal_5fd92ea5299ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367922/normal_6041b0079d64f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426090/normal_60293b548bf21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F7 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 618c7031202bcacd89100a725ebcf28983941ff4d0b5162cce1bb52fb67b35ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A3 11604 bytes
SHA-256: b34b209777e99aa5b872dad1e19f0e1c0a40eadea7ecee78df93be156dec9f50
font_02_sfnt_off00011b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B71 16060 bytes
SHA-256: ae97ebdbf5cb6679ee3ae7f6f8963da9ec2437ada1f672a33085bc8cbe806833