Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae1e0e491096a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-02-14 16:37:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: a1fb009693e6333b97b8d4cadde49ada SHA-1: d982f60b545906d1510c655f36e3068921c43d19 SHA-256: cae1e0e491096a9ffd2bad9337344b7b7281132e2786d66bef962288b37cf590
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent URL pointing to 'seumenha.ru' and disguised as 'citizen skyhawk eco drive instructions'. This suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, or a lure to download further malicious content. The PDF structure and numerous external links also indicate it functions as a link farm, likely to distribute malware or direct users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/wix?keyword=citizen+skyhawk+eco+drive+instructions PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478933/normal_601da0432fcf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werotibumef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900185/tokoxoderomenifena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gorigaserata/bX9vjia/free_litecoin_game_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobikekifeviwo.iblogger.org/news_report_tagalog_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387035/normal_5fc95e6b3f2eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393644/normal_6027ab4c3ac03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dutedape/ixUicQN/84223552223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383475/normal_6013772f322d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475376/normal_601cf02f4a63a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozabamoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135959881/wewuboj-bonuleseja-saromividudax-nawewaturifoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rejasujewefem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738882/kanawelo_wupogaxusovido_zupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382966/normal_5fd6da145e12d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nobutowug/lRiaWie/zimiwulezobava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468563/normal_5fc7d2721b022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389127/normal_5fc7611295486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falevi/minaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fadedosi/pwc_revenue_recognition_guide_asc_606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bewibiwat/formal_goodbye_message_to_coworkers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xadeboni.epizy.com/lorizolowipuxodugemizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zusevamasor/play_game_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vomotoboxavixot.epizy.com/nifitenoponifakadavefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumumewevebav.epizy.com/66083212441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pidufozu/answers_to_the_impossible_quiz_number_17.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_off0000d699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD699 5268 bytes
SHA-256: d925f66a362ccdfb78789b7ca9003e2dc2e42ae272f486e335c19f307507f023
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A2 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 272a41b8bb4ac8216f71e9ce033054d05a5f58e0106f6710c93b453fcc5042d3