Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9fe525bf337f6cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-06-01 17:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 356381bb27b53711323d9af4e82df70f SHA-1: deb4b378aa2cd4092bde9ba78d8a40cd81d3e407 SHA-256: d9fe525bf337f6cc955d1723a7836a021776c78a3ba93769af8e679bbaa212bc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The embedded links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or traffic redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://xajibur.ru/123?utm_term=fixed+left+sidebar+css+template PDF link annotation
    • https://sumikoxivabozo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997645/dokumapujuz-renowenilep-nivuvof-gidiridosuzazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poxolegap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069824/debitovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wubobuxidozexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322977/segojikulerazebunex.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/8093fa4b-6c74-4412-a49f-b7f8d9658bdb/51057010180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajozote.pbworks.com/f/vawokiwizukakalezaromitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/84e63d50-02fc-4169-a7ab-78fd68b29723/ryobi_31cc_trimmer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fee3646a-d361-47b6-b5d5-48db395e2478/abaqus_6.14_free_download_with_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/382a748f-9e12-46b7-86fe-831ade62dcd6/62673316370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1008685-c611-4b4f-953e-d9c85ea41a20/zoxemafagilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d1a69e5-728f-47e9-a17a-ca5d6de82083/25406082405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togusan.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144427545/pezapekamezidobejejufapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mepijewaj.pbworks.com/f/ffg_star_wars_rpg_talent_trees.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2ef66b2-3c2f-4a07-a268-20de854aa359/vopukirifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niwomif.pbworks.com/f/58823105301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigunef.pbworks.com/f/kozaxupagomubodovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barumena.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144461325/what_is_social_tourist_attraction_in_italy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pugaxigodaka.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144444399/hack_8_ball_pool_facebook_pc_coins_and_cash.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae252565-0f1d-4594-873f-2d2deb54a99d/3280201071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/623fbba1-2cf8-4bf6-9794-0297e1a710cc/64188526837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoxafepapesu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144424173/bewabusekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d47d5aa-50ca-4484-a7fc-65499074bc76/51250888483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55713605-280d-4fc1-972f-a8633236567d/bixajoxejema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/581a7a47-eaca-4cbd-bd7e-245f1d497daf/what_is_cradle_to_grave_marketing.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_off0000cf61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF61 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 4b783e2289d80829cf633bb9175e4c5c9cb73efb209d2b49082e04b4bdc4aff7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E7 9920 bytes
SHA-256: e64fe5fbcaa99dac90263b507a0a8915d745ebb37705eb9fd5a647c9dd12f7fd