Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1a66c07f68ab058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-03-23 03:14:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 044e582976e34b628587cb360af68160 SHA-1: 89f32cdd9e00b40e84337f6b8037c2850b371923 SHA-256: c1a66c07f68ab058a35d0b2dbae052f9da0af4dbe6607bce1bdd2cc164e7588b
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 hosting services and employing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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/strik?utm_term=where+can+i+buy+epson+ink PDF link annotation
    • https://wubepifumemav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109226/gajujixoze-visojotoxefu-powunuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulu-go.ru/how_does_keurig_elite_make_iced_coffeeqfpc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mipirizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682564/xoniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledunadexaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775166/vexujazumaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reetodo.online/mots_de_la_famille_de_dentkz9a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watoniworawi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871767/mawobudul-zunilijobeboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wudawagirus/hgz20Yc/typoman_mobile_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibatajikoxego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315017/bujebipedi-bogimodutu-xigolikubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dolitife/Foibiaa/roguelike_dungeon_crawler_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4gusevshop.space/6324853822qqiuy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xozifejor/KifEnjb/47860299557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afracheat4.xyz/varamazezr54r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kofelejezem/geNhb3f/raninod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vobilurerire/Qgepjef/61176592034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gojaxaxiwa/hjZgfhc/realistic_gun_sounds_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4120a80e-5b3c-4a18-bd51-df146a912735/jebisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81a6a783-0abb-4351-845f-3a9dcc45421c/dokoxutopolatogilazowugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/983b3911-dc3e-4d1d-a297-b093e5b49aec/tilulovozifadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c196710b-0ff1-4895-afd3-c6c3d7157701/luwobor.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_off0000f0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AE 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 99d2449afe025f808ed779cd27db379c42d0ea039e236590115282b45a8e057b
font_01_sfnt_off000102c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C5 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 59565844d73974b7fe07b5da8aa1d3897a3275eee4701dd6de9dc7225ba4e4fd