Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9fcc79bf62bf982…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-03-10 03:46:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 060316f6d43fed5816cc233d3de395a4 SHA-1: b03f9d4a9dc9ae37084d04cc6e29edf94c4eb080 SHA-256: d9fcc79bf62bf9824bbff11fd110ab96baa99d94d1d1451824372398244358eb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized pages designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicate a pattern of link manipulation for deceptive purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or a scam, facilitated by the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=how+much+do+belotero+injections+cost PDF link annotation
    • https://pareniwidof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135313819/6c15d6035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fosevikotik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637163/popaputedukezoto.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/3bafc6d6-bfef-4ab0-9077-01a96e0d458d/how_much_do_foster_parents_get_paid_per_child_in_philadelphia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e1c4efe-76cb-434f-8ba7-52dc0956e7bc/waste_king_8000_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfc70788-1e44-4e42-9782-9fa2af1e8bd6/why_is_my_printer_printing_blank_pages_canon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33edd578-4186-4695-89f3-f56a5a23fc53.filesusr.com/ugd/f17c08_822f720dc3134b52956b1157c16af331.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vigevot/lulomidigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da977f79-49c4-43da-be46-5ee39a06a9c0/kilafeliguzijiluropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kosamupim/kojukupusejusavoziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/piwupevivotixi/as_artimanhas_da_excluso_em.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazinibonofobi/32025084545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fipijife/alif_allah_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c78ffd2e-fc3d-4272-86ca-968d835fb7ad.filesusr.com/ugd/0f9ef0_081bc2e5719743be9cd2e6f0c41686d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9fc249e-2e6a-4908-9eb0-88005465a50d.filesusr.com/ugd/2530ee_2178a54a43554bef9f9927140965e246.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufoxorog/who_has_the_most_power_in_politics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c286214-11c2-4b49-81cd-a5fbd8a3376c/47368904462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinadi/transmit_beamforming_ultrasound.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f474f8d2-6489-4b98-b4f1-dd5036d17923/50313843647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/672f4531-64e1-403c-a86f-3873a0df58ed/votuwexokaxeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bibejovixapis/food_elimination_diet_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupagivoz/xofifafupakixopuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ccecd5fd-8e0c-4b78-a1b9-95319f049280/su_lenguaje_corporal_en_ingles.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_off000104e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E0 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 88f8fa7f7e8361ff818b571c4bb2f2c53a6d930ec3f3755cc6f37f2eb79a73dd
font_01_sfnt_off00011693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11693 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 66fa2a885acd776790f9c4eadf212a54fdc247979762d78abe2aff1b75b616fa