Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3a11fce18d7893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 19:26:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 8c1bf2d4c028382131a8f55217477d49 SHA-1: 3fe83c9b1ba4fb8cf8161e88a58ae70bc7606433 SHA-256: ca3a11fce18d78932f93056d0c6437336a939198c093b408dcbc70aa1c2f1ab0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URL 'https://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=boston+tea+party+worksheet' is likely part of this scheme to drive traffic to malicious or spam 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://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=boston+tea+party+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://senabexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265557/rijerikawuzuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pozimifekof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134674510/1922616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxemazone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739829/kinoligusixano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuxijixa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134856984/cdafd782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460447/normal_60540f4d1581e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niwidebuluwuxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637219/53b226e54c216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewazuxaroro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341361/cec991c0bc0768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417527/normal_603919c1111d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xemizumelisiga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856695/6f00fbc92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regifedemez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406591/7b08f0184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486368/normal_6044dc77dae07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kejedavozeve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483662/6491832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409992/normal_5ff0474ed968c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443598/normal_5ff85bb72566e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1b3e2d6a-0348-4772-9bb2-16e56a761455.filesusr.com/ugd/7bcf02_8aafa1ef6e794f799bfb0a19811dc1c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_bb6c5bccc68d4d7cb756d9e47f32202b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://917ed8d3-8a9f-4c5c-a3ad-554e533308ad.filesusr.com/ugd/a4e402_041b1327d3894e6b8b3ef6233c03a4f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovezodepugov/mewebetaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xiwevitox/apistogramma_macmasteri_gold_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3d7304b5-8527-495f-b913-615d6f357a43.filesusr.com/ugd/ef7486_8a6c90cb35b74b91aa698eee88e4ca27.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebcfae26-b4e4-4f1a-a5b2-c5bdbddc1bdf.filesusr.com/ugd/259f90_c795a788cec743b5ba4348e4bf347ce1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/norozovijalu/74530536102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://53ebb62d-ddaf-432f-8dc3-1f4746653467.filesusr.com/ugd/bbd3cf_81207650320e4ea9ba439457017f45bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://204833c8-abda-4421-8777-5048ee7dd919.filesusr.com/ugd/e30b7a_6d2aec0a76b94874817716bb9103bbdb.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_off0000f5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A4 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 55a3ea55bbec203b15e8fd7ce639bf9f3489dea78a4b2994ab3586989dd462ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001075f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075F 11636 bytes
SHA-256: 57e3bfb2b6724c4930e1f30b92aef33374763435854d2eac30f1e62a809ba07a