Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc18a266e3446b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-05-16 13:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d6c95e91ec52b4c377cc6b2ae05c4f40 SHA-1: c174afa9e593207904a36d619710709ace3caad4 SHA-256: cc18a266e3446b993c0fe999c2d5b895e13fc324640b971d87aff24d3e5a0bb8
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, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or ad-filled websites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a possible SEO-based lure to attract unsuspecting users.

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+samsung+ice+maker PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xafukapewe/HMNgdif/ninja_foodi_grill_xl_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/soziwariru/JgeKji4/road_racing_speed_car_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasurorir.sportsontheweb.net/ritipibapamibadabatidaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/retagigimusa/YI3jbF9/mini_z_rc_car_racing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanilix.mygamesonline.org/75869982793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apparently-home.com/ms_driver_license_status3gicm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spencermcman.us/gerapikotebudogapym8v4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itdiscounts.info/can_i_watch_true_detective_on_netflixz2wag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rotuzuwibi/gtgdyie/sojidejawasima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-officialsite.site/94286677421gejuy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixuniwe/hiczvii/dekikeruwebexomekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a4edf7fa-b057-49b5-8014-e5fd436fbef3.filesusr.com/ugd/c8b2c5_19f797df16a1453ab43adfc21af7ea31.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebba3e40-d49f-4cc8-b137-373bb1124918.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_a4896e73a4ea480aa295adeba9e23140.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://48e6b720-b653-4920-beb0-7ef171ab6ab9.filesusr.com/ugd/d9d1f5_49ff46d3caad4851b932530d6b0c00b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e0bfa911-60eb-4c53-bd8d-ceec25156dfb.filesusr.com/ugd/0a052f_fbe5a261cf084ccfa3ac0db568003043.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f5f74d4f-f804-4d9b-9bfa-9964b2756261.filesusr.com/ugd/e389b3_711effbe022a4244add7cea92327bc24.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f72b89be-0fa6-41ee-8162-331329ef78ce.filesusr.com/ugd/95089d_e29871e149be4bebab48fd796a7a7cc4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sugobuven.rf.gd/zusatuvejexanaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nededujimusa.rf.gd/what_does_a_public_relations_intern_do.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabovodowep.epizy.com/divaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a97cc435-ef8e-4ffb-8544-4b9c0bda5a6e.filesusr.com/ugd/7ab440_eb64221b13e244069412666611b2c0ff.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_off0000e7d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D8 5204 bytes
SHA-256: d22b6399ca8456a6775a43531ee9eb002099a2174264690f108bd017e13cd5ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98B 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 884c6c463e69e17ebdb335f62cc92a1858e85a1b87a011fd35623525924aa20d