Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d73596bffd842a93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-04-23 18:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b081fbd813cd1fe9fb4bceb4e9e9575e SHA-1: 32814c49f7fb75dc39b69fa2ee6707cce0fa0e57 SHA-256: d73596bffd842a93c1b2b4bce6115744eaa49da6b485912ae34cbc5ee5f8961e
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 designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. The embedded URLs suggest a spearphishing attachment vector, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=john+deere+d140+48+inch+deck+belt+diagram PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/robimovule/gyOuqn8/62448556844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443371/normal_601c64eda3ea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rapawaferew/hcib2ib/58413575598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nalogigoke/JjdumQw/wowavawabiravam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417990/normal_60648f89b02ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wixadigizal/rnhbXjj/full_quran_translation_in_english_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416321/normal_6057fe8589180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/votezevon/jcggxje/pet_pop_art_portraits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d992f69e-bc5b-430a-92d7-abfd66d0380b.filesusr.com/ugd/6f7357_90a0a7c1f0de4263bc6b61ee06c9ff34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a97be2a3-bfb5-42de-bba9-b145341b31aa.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2860_fbececb9b73b43da88a9addf3c2a6906.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1b6a1bbc-c127-422b-858f-c975555fd18f.filesusr.com/ugd/31f47c_95280cd025b24972be832fd204283e3f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8010028-e548-4ddc-a926-7a8e2e47f224/7649966533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4eb3a9b5-ca6a-4b2a-896e-878abc754f3b.filesusr.com/ugd/f1ab86_8b21f0eb445c4795915d40d0bf32595d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://26577e91-18e8-42c3-8e85-49dcca1d6605.filesusr.com/ugd/195787_f96f88ce649c4e3da778f08e532deaf7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rorives/bbc_iplayer_apk_android_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6bf9bfb-c092-4b17-ab9f-91da83e6a9d2.filesusr.com/ugd/d7ad14_2a5011a122304934a4a286ab83092571.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2b77930-4f55-4d2c-be6c-e6defc03e648/dolores_cannon_three_waves_of_volunteers_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xasovewipeje/98061088575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5418a69-b51a-4b74-b48a-15188850a3dc/rivorexezizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ac65beef-1c88-4b01-a948-251493ed82f2.filesusr.com/ugd/09857b_1cd0a355c898466c94f48a5f514db2fa.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_off00010c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C94 5844 bytes
SHA-256: d86e8e741920102c797fcb13d1945c49437d37d471e9328feeec96d8c3662aad
font_01_sfnt_off00012050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12050 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 95569294095a3d11c060957171eb1f565cd4579c390035d0a2b71f7dba15e33a