Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab3e10778e582b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-04-03 02:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: ad8292def2d2fea1547f66118583ea7f SHA-1: 025cffac14951d741c5add256f0b87b710760c38 SHA-256: cab3e10778e582b5f80b870e71fcd56c6f928075577b8b2e5cf6b0cb609888cd
194 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, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and a 'download' button lure further support this, pointing towards an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/wix?keyword=how+to+trade+warframe+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiwefuxab/fjhiigi/language_leader_upper_intermediate_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simefaburiso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814859/ceebac2dddca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukodijam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134516983/4237928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nunevebola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846747/9529cb5709eb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ludozenidi/2mIjhlf/ahri_rpg_poro_farm_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resawipodejevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814711/rizukoxezugapogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabinavupofi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350319/guzalodumili_larabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f0b7204a-2efd-40eb-b58f-92ef528496cd/moseludupariwasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b62571f9-0577-4fd3-973f-792abc0ccfba/vovajugagigaxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/didowugorokirug/dojijewasasobuvuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f668719a-e791-4d71-8552-47053650ca20/49031869470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e3c7774-c03a-49dd-87ee-0da43ebd39d4/work_from_home_technical_writing_jobs_in_chennai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/masevewi/how_many_numbers_in_nc_drivers_license.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5d88cc7-d960-45c8-8310-ae5e9ef97b80/7745243197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotojipifuzitul/18966567177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc8e7f63-2119-4d77-ad3a-4bcd4dc0200e/32186432330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83f06d49-c5ed-4058-a231-cd73ee4af164/how_to_reset_pin_on_tracfone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c4509dc-aabb-4247-af40-f9bae8cb69a6/the_westing_game_book_plot.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD1 5296 bytes
SHA-256: dc851b6e1d69645d2ccebc661adfc2548bb0ddbd6699c0413b899df8a6fd5404
font_01_sfnt_off0000eed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED5 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 550c717c391bc790721062c9861eb804ac669f2fd6440ae98f357588e5e44024
font_02_sfnt_off00011215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11215 24052 bytes
SHA-256: 136ee98a6ae5a5d82b7c6901b58d79cc051c0573ef50d5b6cbb969637c0e6350