Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8d22bdc5ac5c4b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-03-16 00:28:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 7e1c13c571ef3248294505c3a28d947e SHA-1: 1f84f8c9cf56b8cfc81409ccd3a0c1270b575772 SHA-256: d8d22bdc5ac5c4b98f3ce67e141b9d9816386af8a1b9e519747689e58d0697b9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. One of the embedded URLs, https://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=breakfast+of+champions+pdf+download, appears to be a lure for users searching for specific content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=breakfast+of+champions+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ruzuxopamekegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748505/1046410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/digiwejasipu/eajjtgd/dj_bottle_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mepapogivoma/cjhbjjS/82570721140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijafidul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303061/jalebipapibiw_sikaz_monimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378390/normal_5fca6c43e14bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dusimefosix/ilhbibX/vanilla_cake_recipe_easy_at_home.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivegik.mygamesonline.org/morphemes_and_allomorphs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wuzosiboweja/QgdqZP6/zelipavuwolejebekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fekakekofum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134656499/d47b548e1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/semiwewedazi/hljaggH/national_corvette_museum_raffle_live_stream.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lugexobamav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135965248/5150540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426073/normal_60415e4bf2e7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestyy.com/wBE85iIn 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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9ad3506-9933-4944-89da-8a116db3e9ab/el_significado_de_la_palabra_guerra_de_guerrillas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a44a9d9e-3ce9-422e-9b5d-83ef2d4925cb.filesusr.com/ugd/3234e9_91cc05f38675428381625c6e6662a7a0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7aea0e5-90b6-48a7-b0c5-d55e348fa634/kinetico_water_softener_not_regenerating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/646a96b6-90c7-4389-9264-7ae6ccb3b63f/ariel_sylvia_plath_interpretation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6648aa49-deb3-4d6f-81a8-a63cc7a297fb.filesusr.com/ugd/38eac1_4be625dadfc148209b4afdac8c2a3d28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a8aee2d-3d68-4c09-98ed-743c9c56d6fd.filesusr.com/ugd/460efe_926ff7831b664a89a40183c0d17ab80b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee60c613-3dd1-430d-b711-08e3dcbf0273.filesusr.com/ugd/19ce5d_d6914b9ab8e849ea972da4dc663b89da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b8c2104-e815-4687-876c-f0b6ee0a570f/1447862141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7095e710-59ac-4d27-8a5a-f3bbcaf65deb.filesusr.com/ugd/418e76_60b33f98b5ab444ebd2097382e6e5c71.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcd142e4-ae7e-470b-b220-df521e48d451/what_does_human_geography_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koriwironawuva.myartsonline.com/spanish_grammar_and_vocabulary_workbook.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_off000129f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F4 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 579032d53170d184bbf271cdbb50b5de3a5cbb52bae651e8d9ddbc7e6558cff2
font_01_sfnt_off00013c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C2A 11840 bytes
SHA-256: 1e11f48847b393d89ffa46d8a9ad404e34af7727d4ba04b602ff2e3c9491a5be
font_02_sfnt_off000163a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163A9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e