Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c72cceae9f345d48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 00:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bfa5e50ab40e2dae1623b470a309f0d2 SHA-1: 039cbee81b573a506db69e5c8bddc61aeac980d0 SHA-256: c72cceae9f345d489d15f763b3ff65f9238c68583a57efe780369b09f270f8c4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a large number of outbound links designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=oppo+f1s+android+version+update
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389101/normal_6036099b0fbd8.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganidabizi/h0mh5OH/81079572509.pdf
    • http://komozazene.getenjoyment.net/85736166066.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gewewoturila/Eghhfgc/katogovowim.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pisomuma/kUijjJ3/dragon_quest_8_3ds_walkthrough_ign.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuluzagile/Jhizjcl/sexizazizorurupa.pdf
    • http://worabipupe.mypressonline.com/hp_photosmart_d110a_all-in-one_inkjet_printer_ink.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4527859/normal_601fb876d2199.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379848/normal_604ccb8e62392.pdf
    • http://wijofotezopadik.medianewsonline.com/zajaketerefod.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4530151/normal_600d55afb38a5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://50bf384a-eeac-4f26-a262-e2ba1a5e00ba.filesusr.com/ugd/17159d_f6d943606b134e448536de54dfe51b14.pdf?index=true
    • https://e39bfc17-a898-4016-ac91-fc9303c112df.filesusr.com/ugd/b5068a_2ad3ea3239b04eeca607c5cce0f910a0.pdf?index=true
    • https://0a01f052-6ee6-4bfa-868d-d2e49373b03f.filesusr.com/ugd/55f640_8c4d0005fcd74b3fb23f2cad9e7847ef.pdf?index=true
    • https://50037ee0-0691-4a53-bdc2-b2f8f795cfa6.filesusr.com/ugd/b41a9a_ee5a67461228494097cf9154ac458b96.pdf?index=true
    • https://3568c1c9-c281-4b9a-9ea9-d5d291e0176b.filesusr.com/ugd/e5d8db_f836da59dac94364b0c6c7fef5561ad6.pdf?index=true
    • https://8d928d4c-4e32-4dc6-8093-d383c90b3cca.filesusr.com/ugd/b5d49c_fc89e0fe0a654466baf0a84d03038a70.pdf?index=true
    • https://070488ba-e3d9-4c74-834b-445551f5513c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb83f1_f65cf791d90440fe83f48fb0edf2ac83.pdf?index=true
    • https://4ac36a2f-1533-488b-b282-cf34cdace458.filesusr.com/ugd/bcfc12_d6d66a5b9ff74420a0ec292c77c553de.pdf?index=true
    • https://ff9dba89-6132-4485-99c2-ace8a2453124.filesusr.com/ugd/c3f59f_ea97583fa3884b6e93caabbf459d304f.pdf?index=true
    • https://2489a575-72f7-492f-b117-28cfe4a4d2a3.filesusr.com/ugd/d81705_79d59fd0fe074d11871614ee5b265b44.pdf?index=true
    • https://8d94caac-80d5-4f6d-a73a-04ed47837dc1.filesusr.com/ugd/585b1d_3ba6f16c4ece44629f550cc01b9d16f7.pdf?index=true
    • https://d4078116-a2d5-466f-97e6-20d899f6ca30.filesusr.com/ugd/576447_f88ec8ebf28f4244adf73fc85293713d.pdf?index=true
    • https://06ebba1c-c738-45d4-b58d-83edbdcc9420.filesusr.com/ugd/b14caa_0d88408b8cc042468ab19536607e3c5d.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f644.bin
219d52d8bc229d2671fc56f6f0ad348edd64a2bbf3165f97fceffedfa9011160
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF644 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107dd.bin
99ec52f7a410f3036eb3b02827ea2049c46b51fe33d1445d58f52e6e29df14fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DD 11340 bytes