Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca09e7e838d379f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-22 03:47:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 73059fc7f0defde5a963fb5365e038f0 SHA-1: 617aecc6e8a6fe68aa1f52ccd645428d564e8aed SHA-256: ca09e7e838d379f8c2a393ce5ac947268aad4e978fae79438f8eacae518c0962
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One prominent URL, 'https://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+hard+is+it+to+get+disability+support+pension', suggests a phishing lure related to disability support. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+hard+is+it+to+get+disability+support+pension PDF link annotation
    • http://tcerkovniekupola.space/napezawuny8gfs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusewuvi.medianewsonline.com/adverbs_of_frequency_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praktika-ingenieur.com/how_to_recharge_mophie_powerstation_xlkpomf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jabodegodonirad.atwebpages.com/dirt_devil_power_max_xl_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://78ee58ad-4251-4cb6-9d9e-6f806931ac90.filesusr.com/ugd/b6b4e8_84c7421f7a314144a5153fe520c74907.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95bce6ed-69e6-4451-92df-f6dd8991c9f0/why_did_he_touch_my_stomach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bad3f395-1638-4667-b349-d6f934eeab49.filesusr.com/ugd/ed2d23_fcf14a320ec3430f972c6df281e17f1c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42e9c006-12f4-4287-bbf4-d9adac32d3e9/71272173651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ef78bc0-cbc8-4c68-b6b6-20cecd9b5a57/tewalodipuwaxudivijilunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b02a67ad-c915-4849-a0b6-8d4c12d7489b/virigixupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfabac9c-3a78-4d86-b112-ccf1750024e9.filesusr.com/ugd/b46e2f_7fa85a90a7d340d3be5b85896019e208.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71b4061d-0fbe-47a8-a671-08758978b022.filesusr.com/ugd/0216f2_bf1accd77fa74da0ba678178ff77a2d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/743c0a7b-50e4-4f61-9937-3f23571502cc/death_and_the_compass_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://80f75f89-a1e3-4611-a0ef-7a704eb82da9.filesusr.com/ugd/0286dd_34dcd8ddc7754a93a1d54cc760e09db0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c6612b4-0fc5-453d-8922-90eded8ef3e8/pepopetupivebalifiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6478d21b-237c-41b5-add8-96d7b9819624.filesusr.com/ugd/c7ef1a_b891e6df98af4974bb3363afe5bba258.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_a67b252c56dc47dba1c9b51114e23d6c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2271ec8e-6877-4f2e-a2a9-eb01e253f267/98994736276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc40e70a-6ff4-4dac-836c-10d3dd690819/apparel_logo_design_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83c0874e-2099-4766-bec2-257c93028086/42014303089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d5fd0048-bb8d-45a1-ba21-28d1cb0b7162.filesusr.com/ugd/5e8de6_ffdbb556735d48cfad6959c834426b4f.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_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 5516 bytes
SHA-256: b4cd8353f04be014f2a231dfcd6ca08750729c21cbe37a24f89444bf4c383824
font_01_sfnt_off000104a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A8 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 71a4b6f42168da70eb52099504933a3efe8ade017573ec1ac627e33396347779