Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4d696a203eb9c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-04-30 10:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 48fc040b31af56f7a1717b35c9444db9 SHA-1: b8ef1e61930f4725202d9ef47959cea443300764 SHA-256: d4d696a203eb9c0dcda643cff39d752787d796952d09e2287638e61d4b572108
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and utilizing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL analysis strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=hoover+steamvac+solution+tank+leaking PDF link annotation
    • http://xozowilozoga.mywebcommunity.org/zizibekidoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bufamugogok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986728/4ad73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fujotojaxob/XK0dzja/flip_range_apk_android_oyun_club.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393186/normal_6040e8215322c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varitutetuvux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607805/luxazigivegapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bebumila/fy4ijtw/axis_of_symmetry_factored_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470688/normal_600931b033c64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xikalevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319979/19d9a3678b4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lekusovu/jJiejf5/kimibilipevosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://femonejigajape.mywebcommunity.org/arabic_malayalam_yaseen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotituwidekave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585458/lasejutajevedoriwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481831/normal_602802d70043c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rebamomidaw/QnYChh1/57149122277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loganidob/ejbVhhj/driving_zone_mcallen_tx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447434/normal_5ff9c869c214b.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/7c29ba12-76f5-4780-be51-5253f781665c/epson_artisan_1430_ink_pad_reset_utility.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xologikaju.atwebpages.com/asme_section_viii_div_1_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5410b2d5-e7b0-48f3-9143-8640362de824/why_is_my_wallpaper_steamer_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/635c7f61-327d-4120-9b33-853690b182eb/tilagigokenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://538d8494-0c7d-401a-b890-0485f6bc7bca.filesusr.com/ugd/29c71c_2ff74bd53f134ccfb968a5aede19c9ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3794eb9c-cc8b-492c-aecc-44533f76aaa6.filesusr.com/ugd/1ee69b_138712c7bbc54bb49cc53fcab4fc624d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a05fb7d4-cad8-481b-879e-b3782b7dbc5d/chemical_applications_of_group_theory_ppt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2eda13a9-9e0f-47dd-bbfa-a9a5028a3314.filesusr.com/ugd/61c57f_0017802279eb4e7a960e8747839bedbe.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_off0000efc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC4 5204 bytes
SHA-256: cc87cda7f4f31f4ac9effabe6f358b4a1cdd2fe32ff285cd9cf9298fa957cf95
font_01_sfnt_off00010167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10167 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 91ac1fd2b6a5a29b782f73304ba15c9dfa2e9f40cea4dc2c616b5da700fd4d50