Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8eeb451c2d3beac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-05-27 21:32:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9f88c93b81d9b7598e420315a5736d68 SHA-1: 21fcdd350485369477204c0323215fe3b4060601 SHA-256: d8eeb451c2d3beace19e6a6b17c6cf5733b6390200957aee20c1d1bed67914b0
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 pointing to disposable hosting, and one primary URL that appears to be a redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a link farm designed to drive traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to distribute further malware or phishing content.

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=android+sdk+install+windows+10+64+bit PDF link annotation
    • https://pexafibilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134484824/e50b2e2b3d0fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mefopati.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866381/c3211e339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456660/normal_5ff3455c1eab5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ponasamexow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398296/napigewozelezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamilazubi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134604156/a11c0cf3548ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tixamipoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740597/4887616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugezufetewivu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598593/8803953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volifinidolil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873876/438ba553dc15b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miruvogix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408245/wanoxolezifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxenaduro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164157/6a0a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewefero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383264/1390225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatuxosigataban.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770737/pobuxuruge-mewexutuzuwusem-rivegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fowawuxubave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134759807/3508215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varavedonenen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316352/divewobamerodo-tawita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifofokir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607054/d3e6a68ee1ec8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474989/normal_60673192cc02f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zufakuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134343409/kususula-xozarife.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/f9b67300-e8af-4e60-bab0-1ab0c89196af/12260846511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6369acb-bc7d-498c-abf3-852caba0188f/weather_map_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0568011e-6971-434d-9e30-f90f5d97c47b/9341249662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae7d9279-4a37-45e6-936a-fb79ead3af22/jebux.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BA 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 03d1560351e2c0fe2112b2bfd0ed5670f7e21cbcb2301880fb3f325fdd169e91
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB8 10676 bytes
SHA-256: a938d10ff28a9908058e12f4638bb008da834cdc0f23e62e13e24e0fbb52a0fd