Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfa9a7e6f5b071dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-02-21 23:40:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7bb86bde25fdc7797fac0ab6a7673381 SHA-1: ae5a4f11113657a2f56937dfd65dd92b8f676cb4 SHA-256: cfa9a7e6f5b071dd5a422910b79a27daa07edd09f54444b88d454ab2a57bb2fb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=pickett+n4-es+slide+rule+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://megojame.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135992505/tuxipazopogaranuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitovoraf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164311/zeleveredumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noxisoture/fhfvgjf/rutagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jososipiwudamuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740918/riruwot-zaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mibazudifij/FQzhfQA/survivalcraft_2_download_pc_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423780/normal_6020aa07f40ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421224/normal_600b4c9837a02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jaruxabal/6je9qjd/dragon_dice_tower_3d_print.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7gusevshop.website/nordvpn_free_cracked_apkszpip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesimplycompleteseries.com/fundamentals_of_financial_management_concise_7th_edition_solution_manualvx8m5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zugavugusalozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776271/8637741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490141/normal_601889240e569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolavakewuxilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407047/7055526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rapelolizoxofi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381924/xatixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f3f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F7 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2a3c91d9773f6515f5eb9cb7a553457d6116eab4d156f52c2b1988ab1443a4
font_01_sfnt_off000105d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D9 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 75ad44549dccc4c67273a50f97995cdf37b7d35bceae0720022288ecd6ad72b4

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