Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c88d5e7cb24a5482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-03-30 03:41:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fabe06563899401717c9834fc474c650 SHA-1: 23109791d9f43b022396bafd008decaef6ce579c SHA-256: c88d5e7cb24a5482a969f7b3046e2b763a8dcf59b56c13df397d51227b823be8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. 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 point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=d%2526d+5e+spell+templates PDF link annotation
    • http://betizekaxu.getenjoyment.net/disobujojebobawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebedepubini.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813558/7436521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zesijijonade.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776416/1597618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melowimaz.getenjoyment.net/digitech_jamman_stereo_sd_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowowevu.mypressonline.com/narasimha_rao_committee_report_1991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelinebaj.mypressonline.com/pixamutiwesilatevagogipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mikijanux.atwebpages.com/49936188453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abc1dd22-570f-4f3f-abbd-dbc3f99fb654/3473464102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0879a0a1-a20e-4dce-ba7f-fce2256d9573/bebujenatagogejebemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gixiluvigatekij.atwebpages.com/the_astronomy_book_big_ideas_simply_explained_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1607b39-64b6-478b-bc02-8d303436d53a/modernist_cuisine_gluten_free_bread.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee2cf2e2-b93f-4030-93e6-7a887a7d89d9/dragon_quest_8_3ds_strategy_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://601bead5-a720-4f65-98db-62fe2a42cb91.filesusr.com/ugd/0e52b4_fd5df5d5aae04357b3bfa52f0911a36b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb21d43b-97a2-469f-843f-a480c90e51d8/478596636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d4078116-a2d5-466f-97e6-20d899f6ca30.filesusr.com/ugd/576447_aa92107e5192468eb6ac55af0d322d85.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6632aaff-1fe9-4f1d-acb3-7d444e457837.filesusr.com/ugd/ce4b7c_55adf0752c004771b0b44dfc4899af46.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c9b0c9dc-51ad-46ec-84b2-dbc26df53712.filesusr.com/ugd/b6f588_d6b3a70147f44f4e820a7501e954a900.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45b5dd60-95e9-43ba-80c4-0a269d80508d/jizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d0275d90-c5b4-4c72-b581-d0e2b62fc6dd.filesusr.com/ugd/ee54da_19803df3df034de69900440e33102114.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_off0000e4da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DA 4156 bytes
SHA-256: bb1702a9e9b617346157f9ea6f36cc14559c37d4a4a2cf683ebd57dce9d2c082
font_01_sfnt_off0000f309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF309 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 79d88e6244be3658f8d0e57b488b4dcb94198bed43661d7148c499b31b0469b8