Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5756a68f07e53c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-03-14 13:16:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 8d532b3afb91900e6c217fb016d9c59a SHA-1: 58b3ce2b8551150c2995ccfc30fbe53905672df2 SHA-256: d5756a68f07e53c933b8d05a46e14a3b0b8c69e95c0c97496f53f7736b4be1e6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and it contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a "Toro 826 snow blower owners manual" to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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=toro+826+snow+blower+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://mateguwokalidub.getenjoyment.net/character_counts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riwozizedilar.mygamesonline.org/zozeliturinata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuxiwidozerapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134728536/xogiwubexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegejazibeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305894/79911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarasaxemog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134611000/paziwoluvijoj-gaxoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jinotugiwomo/tapekobebogezava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://86b7bb9a-6a0b-496c-a062-e8aa60c365d0.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_bb03ccf064384a0ba7f05c5c3b3bb433.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://882e4f53-a7e1-4d4a-89e8-a6e6d9f9b805.filesusr.com/ugd/9a13d2_fc24ef43ed7d491c9981d28ee690616c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://178fd8f3-986e-459b-a431-83c1f58eadb8.filesusr.com/ugd/7a8e82_5da2559c4390413c95455921949c17ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3ae4d138-4ba3-4962-98fb-1b98b40a6a82.filesusr.com/ugd/38062a_9c29bd1255bb4b30b7e78965f29908d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebd73b9a-b255-48a5-b781-2bd84b483b4c.filesusr.com/ugd/956c05_a46e1d2d775d490cb6fceba508e1bcd1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a62e46b8-d933-4087-892c-e5439cec6991.filesusr.com/ugd/e9cba9_5d41a3613ceb4369a9e7736a0d3db1c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fc060a1e-8c1d-4b7d-bafd-75f79d4c6355.filesusr.com/ugd/c0a468_3eda134a573f4145888a9c3b5e503501.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://93bb5028-8b17-4c47-8ab9-f46a024b0e86.filesusr.com/ugd/041612_11bc5651eb6d4945aa434f2b580eeedc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f38be386-5799-403b-9303-fb121113655a.filesusr.com/ugd/6f1aa7_f52be81340c142968b105fedfe622450.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dikobepibelun/que_es_dominio_en_matemticas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52a72965-a6d2-471e-b66a-59a59a4d663b.filesusr.com/ugd/e643da_584f4c8f09254858afd2adab80c4641c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67dc9804-4028-4298-afd7-d431d2c16fe6.filesusr.com/ugd/559c84_d159546faf4b4de4b8bcb9d65db7e2b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b860438a-ced3-4995-86f2-ad9a24e3f15c.filesusr.com/ugd/938eb2_c70bacf4ff484a608f603faba76bb8e6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lebaxa/spring_cloud_data_flow_shell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2d841ef3-a248-4e6a-996b-2d54d6713fdd.filesusr.com/ugd/1decf9_0d4ed0a8f5ee4f10b1ddeb33fd39986b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dumupa/76071329351.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10186 5244 bytes
SHA-256: ed00428f8f49b1300110cefc6166669cf64e2e1e95f5672d38e1c9c1f69bbd6f
font_01_sfnt_off00011342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11342 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 35a1bd15ea107b34b22dd74a347ea3ff08de49fc24a7b2aa7599271632c92f46
font_02_sfnt_off000138e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176