Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4b9848b317cede9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-03-28 22:30:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 576e8dc07dc6b4947bef097e2e5643a5 SHA-1: 9a95e57e199a44e4de957a0dd616dc599e9ec352 SHA-256: c4b9848b317cede9a551bdd83f66cf5dcb0f93071fa30ce867f3ba8614885fbf
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/wix?keyword=pubg+download+apk+livik+map PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/birenejar/YEjgthk/duvefuxososopevumutitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorajakura/i2Djfjj/6520052819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xugosovemi/iggheS6/island_homes_for_sale_belize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kitujesijak/IG82fgg/54888529860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xavexapoxiv/jjgj2hi/96882192998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-central.com/75313527200lulb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/BgfBgji/jidetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dutudovajud/wNa7jhe/video_editor_salary_us.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ribafesupuro/GibbH2A/43926044007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmb-societe.com/economics_phd_salary_uk0g026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creamwalls.online/springfield_model_87a_historyxwna4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disclosures.space/15705269835kt4ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-24.ru/nerejifojixinukelutoret4alek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noviraxat/jadjejb/kinadozezifapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ketalidukepi/ifhgjdI/guruge.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/f52d8824-853f-4db4-8abe-da123099ea52/85340816464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vofadoloves/1643819727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/petubapizo/garage_sale_pricing_guide_tools.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b050aaf-140c-4af9-bc4b-e89e99f75942/brewmaster_monk_dual_wield_shadowlands.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58f3df63-db9f-4381-b002-e4167ba00b63/taurus_pt111_g2c_fiber_optic_sights.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1a02809-28b8-425d-af2a-085ef719778d/9994457531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b7a9710-d2f6-42e6-aee8-9ccae026090b/what_does_auld_lang_syne_lyrics_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/062287d1-b7e3-4b03-ae27-eb625e0bd67d/what_is_geography_ks3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/moduxanakuri/49423261511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58614efe-e3ad-4523-81ee-1ee22118ac0e/huckleberry_finn_audiobook_chapter_15.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
    • 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_off0000f16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16F 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 4629c2ee99174f8b50f79b791d9af17b3580795cbfddcb073db9b4ce84bc1728
font_01_sfnt_off000103b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B8 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 10582f6b4a83e081b36dad72003df6609004342dbd79dfabe89f7e2ad5d41f71
font_02_sfnt_off00012986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12986 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd