Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ddd6917e3b5336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-15 22:27:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 03995fe9ff82bfa57522946f71410bc4 SHA-1: bde64749956b88af608321dffd176607589be85b SHA-256: d0ddd6917e3b5336cb1975a698bcfeb8afe2e9b0ee7a20f222b06fe30c02046c
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 URIs, with a primary URL pointing to 'https://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=multiplying+cells+worksheet+answers', suggesting a potential SEO manipulation or phishing lure. The presence of many links to disposable hosting further supports its use in malicious activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=multiplying+cells+worksheet+answers
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477367/normal_6002560877ce9.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xavaxonad/jchb173/mosibekajudafixalan.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413111/normal_601795a531d12.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426556/normal_5fd2e33f7b36c.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/timadupak/nKhejgu/32381931279.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fokatekox/hhhyagf/laurentide_ice_sheet_map.pdf
    • https://rawaruginoninum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070401/a8ef17e.pdf
    • https://bajixaxazuxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383864/d30862fdbc39.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuwibagula/hfgdbPW/anemia_falciforme_causas_geneticas.pdf
    • https://dowogejur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135992185/6219926.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387825/normal_5ff19c7da5376.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://f07eb630-23ff-4298-a1df-d7940f1ba2dc.filesusr.com/ugd/097a5b_61859865bd8e437393cf3db2bff21f82.pdf?index=true
    • https://30c0d994-bee2-4d79-bc91-d4aaa7251653.filesusr.com/ugd/0962d9_fb542fc73e79494299f4697a2b176b48.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df58212f-fb6c-4f82-a733-bb9919ac00cc/how_much_for_a_retractable_awning_installed.pdf
    • https://5071cc05-3fa2-46b1-b944-d2523ca4b51d.filesusr.com/ugd/62e2c1_f0cdf1a520ba4c3280f9cfad8825dd44.pdf?index=true
    • https://ba739632-11db-41f7-a023-683a20e55d36.filesusr.com/ugd/99835b_8d4b422ed1344006b566fa7c05764422.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f7d4f1e-585a-4433-b942-33e723e6ac46/1164333362.pdf
    • https://32e47638-7206-44c1-ad53-5c6f9176402e.filesusr.com/ugd/e00742_ab2e036a8fbc4eae94c9c3fc2fc3af61.pdf?index=true
    • https://b3709dad-42f4-4621-9b7e-74d31ca978cd.filesusr.com/ugd/f91cf1_adf4ecaff55f469fa21235792e9623d0.pdf?index=true
    • https://cef8af8d-7071-4339-ac50-fc417d371010.filesusr.com/ugd/a89196_dcbecef7bf574464859faf607ac7c386.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d91a1eb9-fce3-409f-a651-d31859d5fc19/bitutovujis.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8c2.bin
cc00477d2208ecf7bd81297c944cf12f75d6aa235fcb8dc5b797e03fa24a712a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C2 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb01.bin
e8f6a926800514e08ee88e7ecd06f73747b2dfcc2f78fefd9ba0f073beddf01c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB01 10740 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fec.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEC 4324 bytes