Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0189def3fe97d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-05-27 19:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d4db95bc82d997b1bbb8e56cfdb3a860 SHA-1: d6611a72fac5b4b3d31191f6c659f34235fa314c SHA-256: d0189def3fe97d1e96d984c49c450a4c7474113c6cdf8c185b2dd05d01d5e3d7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF documents, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary redirector URL, 'https://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=electrolytic+cell+and+electrochemical+cell+difference', is directly associated with a high-risk heuristic for SEO redirectors used in free-download phishing. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=electrolytic+cell+and+electrochemical+cell+difference PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479691/normal_5fe09ce0cc1db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499995/normal_6022cd576e199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374181/normal_60580d23cd2b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biditojutorosas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657596/xaperox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasaputuvawejep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314153/sifoxixovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448550/normal_5fcf247392f73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luliguruj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134879099/metifolesok-dakuxovaw-gumapaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383806/normal_600098afce8bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noxibeguw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295894/fusibipag_kekewefijosogeg_dawonelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4527164/normal_6021baca6f935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453333/normal_60342349e3373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488135/normal_6018df3dbc7a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382778/normal_602e1d7629f27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452593/normal_5ff4e0b8380e5.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/42d8c194-29f7-4827-90ff-831935a8bd35/wezizopusufadiwibuliruweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5fcc306-26ad-4dcb-a57c-1bba47a1aa98/what_is_a_strand_of_dna_wrapped_around_proteins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/352f6998-0cb0-4324-8d2f-992b11ff68c8/sedomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9906a0ec-25e8-4322-bd3f-f508c85702b5/32547060349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6d6e506-6a26-45da-ab34-a8ff70631db1/is_magic_mouse_2_worth_it_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5216e071-09c0-40b6-8b0b-0ffd1c2122bb/saltwater_crocodile_characteristics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/41d0f486-f12d-4c67-9359-1743ebe209ce/dixilatenasivig.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_off00010231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10231 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 3e57658694ad060524b5b9dab2cc831813f59b0c0f153966afd6d9c602100539
font_01_sfnt_off0001138e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138E 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 5cad1fb36424d6621ce36e84085614b903daed6acef342ae763315db3537069a