Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d96348777ee3717c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-03-28 10:40:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 824e21d308385f5a8479c2b0b8e3de31 SHA-1: 2abcb1261bbf819c18f4ab9beb83eb32fcc56996 SHA-256: d96348777ee3717c4d5300bc7c4105dbfd53b5831d40147c8f1fcd1aaeaabeeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming technique. One of the primary URLs, https://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=sample+case+study+about+business+pdf, is likely part of this malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=sample+case+study+about+business+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373243/normal_6014377110f12.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiwumixe/rlJpgil/irish_wolf_hunting_dog.pdf
    • http://gipeturira.22web.org/assembler_apercu_mac.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369317/normal_5fe31529682e4.pdf
    • https://tukibasitotaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134445351/17208.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388157/normal_605069702787c.pdf
    • http://kewegagibemidaj.22web.org/musilosevofewapas.pdf
    • http://lamenomapod.iblogger.org/limuzusudalut.pdf
    • https://lalemudisezevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134359520/4a16d5ac.pdf
    • http://xujipavekipu.iblogger.org/job_application_letter_and_resume.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/desiruzag/hhgiaVk/timifegali.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/suxugipipolazog/winawufevavilif.pdf
    • https://e082b6be-64c0-45f6-a8ff-82b9c6f476f0.filesusr.com/ugd/1479de_1b2b959e818a48ce89e9f84fd14f6ddd.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulalowisu/washington_state_university_tuition_payment.pdf
    • https://2a497570-3881-454f-aefc-229a18bbdf22.filesusr.com/ugd/83e24f_a4cf9d9da1ec4707b12d60f62d7d8c66.pdf?index=true
    • https://1cd0d4d5-11d4-440c-a307-81f73801f601.filesusr.com/ugd/f0e51d_e86126bea7f74dbab7523bfc0e6b63b4.pdf?index=true
    • https://2ad55d82-15d9-4995-b72c-f03dca93b5f4.filesusr.com/ugd/11b7eb_06041427501e49aaa0af12552e15725b.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tawovojo/hp_pavilion_27-a071a_all-in-one_review.pdf
    • https://6ba8113a-99dc-4618-97bf-d7180f10ff72.filesusr.com/ugd/b6edda_9b747bac5da546b1abb394947426a50f.pdf?index=true
    • http://zozafiromilofin.epizy.com/employment_history_form_means.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tesotiwapax/antropologia_aplicada_roger_bastide.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000107e6.bin
52efae63b6c515245c7c6837c92236e7f3f993b6e6d67e0d0337181185b49712
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E6 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a4a.bin
c2c3d5408873757ec60f27f4d2679d74d99d343ce203d98ba6bcf0a92e9c5a0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4A 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f10.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F10 4324 bytes