Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9a711fcc184b44c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-05-12 10:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0cfaf0838a59ddf87cca1e5a3ff30dd8 SHA-1: b67c01427b832652963336b25c12e46236c3a951 SHA-256: c9a711fcc184b44c556e45286567df5d05a8254e352c30477ee9deb1674ab3fe
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by both ML classification and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The embedded URL `https://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=how+did+the+methods+and+subjects+in+art+change+during+the+renaissance` and the numerous other links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=how+did+the+methods+and+subjects+in+art+change+during+the+renaissance PDF link annotation
    • https://getenulezawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897364/buboguwukelimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kasunelebak/tzKgfhg/40307264112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fujotojaxob/ejYghUs/plain_city_ohio_to_columbus_ohio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italywow.space/fetopedemarufaxefedewibap07knv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubatizusilaboj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134475350/6152309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fikalibumi/ggQ7AlB/emulator_android_studio_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenketo.buzz/20158826593xgwv8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467287/normal_5fd640c0dbcac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiwopaperuv/gighgda/68666961751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380403/normal_60546b5b007fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italywow.space/best_prices_for_lg_washer_and_dryer8i35n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture21.online/gowumuvufuzugelcgv2v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixisuja/iODhchj/helix_jump_online_lagged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funegalarupot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316730/5271893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexazoterufufur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486617/xigejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sawomunuj/uTlibDk/amaze_meaning_urban_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanuniwa/TiajbqI/6458539107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedikunakudu/gfkSUii/youcut_video_editor_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/niwexifa/idMlUje/pudozonidobokewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://584dc5e1-4449-4bca-b3d9-d0e1fa08a972.filesusr.com/ugd/185caa_cecb99ab75904527b6b4f0afde34f38d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a6053a4b-6066-498d-92a8-7748b68531bc.filesusr.com/ugd/5f0d2f_e6ef08a2981244d7b5c0dfc024bec52f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1527c8d3-3321-4e9f-872f-e2bebb57bac2.filesusr.com/ugd/bf2d42_3e2a41219226444eba21a090f358d7eb.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_off0000e87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87A 5588 bytes
SHA-256: f16b0dfd067656eb0d4bc709c16aef432e964e8bea4d89a346093c9211b73e3d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB60 11560 bytes
SHA-256: ea595978c9408e137bc5ae11ef6fc95764bc627baa5fa0ce10035436bfbb1f8c