Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9afea5a0ee6b255…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 11:04:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e8b148ccff2e4fac33cb08a59544d287 SHA-1: 9152d886eb16e0ce2e566033701114f136bb7b17 SHA-256: c9afea5a0ee6b255ad4ce44485dc0a1645e807e9da7f4ffd75f87ae2f203358c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to other PDF documents hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=mini+militia+green+mod+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://jemewifawoboxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134872293/2a368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481841/normal_5fe335387ce3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4379611/normal_60afe92f610c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465131/normal_60518f3f1a2ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384164/normal_602b069560ee4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sopazamiwurigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134387891/5059530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudunusom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602981/dunovunowaselinunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420586/normal_6063678e2cbc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mozufutedubido.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134503110/ac903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481841/normal_604cf99a84821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pumelagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814433/gojuralimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373016/normal_60552c3030c5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451049/normal_60347ec9c8d6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teveluzisobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299025/6076405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kizubunutasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348794/disisubumabiselamise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudezujom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384555/01ef613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499633/normal_602623c6da6c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodapoxole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398067/tupak-gebabasumize-rinibowalepi-nanoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453909/normal_6060635a3c83e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387033/normal_5fc6ad5bd02b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401538/normal_5febeded15b98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kiletejude.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144606429/moreli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dumunivuniv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144676158/order_of_operations_worksheet.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09D 5260 bytes
SHA-256: dff261c8a43b43b3e8e5047dd3026d7bdc03fca17c551fd941f63a442b1c2549
font_01_sfnt_off0000f286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF286 10348 bytes
SHA-256: f0c7f6c905ec74d734fae40ea0f967bb5f2e17ef4686649eec93755e416bc048