Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c657aa8742b7fa3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-20 22:26:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 9ef8bddf8b0d2d2a8b4085df2c595f8e SHA-1: 49a85c3df6409a53f88c8f789cceb401817a0efa SHA-256: c657aa8742b7fa3f43331397db7691926254c0bdc71974b0ff4697b1f2d2b47f
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 contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'aptitude test all formulas pdf', likely to entice clicks on the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=aptitude+test+all+formulas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gezesapifo.22web.org/evs_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozibopabedabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136082219/wilepulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nametipij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164318/gomad_sewinej_jiganevegibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xomuwesakutizid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135393414/zatolirole_norewewonuv_fofunefovulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niregesop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776037/gisumekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milevewon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041257/d92f2c21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zawamobapuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135383520/nuzisupodofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betirowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134661799/dufovolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nozutijakowuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305587/7510152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kugenezajiz.22web.org/john_kingdon_agendas_alternatives_and_public_policies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzipelafow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688966/1659259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6c71f620-b6e5-46cc-9e58-526c5f0a7a41.filesusr.com/ugd/1c90dc_f0ee08632ba4426192326a9e4a6d84f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cfc603e6-7cd4-4c42-812b-9722deb80ae4.filesusr.com/ugd/0e9fc2_75ab30753ca14967a49ef26ad151ef50.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://taxatix.epizy.com/advanced_engineering_mathematics_solutions_zill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://95fbbc11-640f-4658-acdf-6e09da746871.filesusr.com/ugd/e42ee3_3de64a9e905d419780e1d72b95ae5044.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac263381-fdad-4fda-ae78-6df6d71032d6.filesusr.com/ugd/25c42e_c243c66de31444258b7e6dc99de1e5b0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f2fb29c-15f2-4b08-b525-3eb91a7f0a41.filesusr.com/ugd/c3548c_b74ebfa9aa8f4edeb732325e2b27ac41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://510b81f6-be4e-4e40-9acf-3f60af495837.filesusr.com/ugd/5f226b_9398c140c8554ab389b07fbec7daa2af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f1ddcea9-c323-452c-a4d3-aaefec61e50a.filesusr.com/ugd/defd8a_ebf47208dd0946a59d0dce2106e987e0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c817321-7c0c-448b-959d-deb1da9fd788.filesusr.com/ugd/19103d_9ce7015cfdf74f2f8f6f62fa8c28aa11.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1fa67a36-2e8b-44cc-a955-751d80433762.filesusr.com/ugd/d85e51_3e9244d2a4874515b8092740ddae53e9.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_off0000eb0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0E 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb70aa9bc561b6b9c9c6a7435241950a3c3ea6d92b65fb6fbea8a0ef6e98fae
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9C 11828 bytes
SHA-256: 27de4c4fdc723676f18e9ca494b719066a71be9e782119e2352578b442e989d7