Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca4dafb78ba93c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-06-06 05:36:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e6c873354983d891fb937b3047dc9a12 SHA-1: a9b38f00d9f4bdf2572d47a9ef411d6f8fb4211f SHA-256: dca4dafb78ba93c03d98c0c137a81646d05cafc300b18502c2a50b5ac5876338
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, containing numerous external links to various domains, some of which are hosted on disposable platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or SEO manipulation purposes.

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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+report+eigenvalues PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4418367/normal_60b1e596bbe12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogamoduxex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481485/verevizuwujuram-kokugasiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebafazar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265880/da75787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopukelaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135335042/b340d35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudovizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338339/volazogosabanuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikizulotozenap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860645/segidubijebufawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lewaxirilukuxod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813115/naxanukemuvizab-nimiburowipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siragakepog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890789/5042599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408346/normal_6029d0d9df98d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vutadatibanol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883393/9990455a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kofovozeregom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313602/gubutivus-sunirexoxu-tales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466673/normal_60277d14f2470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428045/normal_6018f58c0ccb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366408/normal_5ff19cbd297a0.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/b781a5ea-7a47-43c3-b085-07d598c1e2a5/buvopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce5d5893-9747-4f63-8726-0ea361a7e925/the_new_market_wizards_jack_d_schwager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60bb48fe-ff0c-4b5e-85d9-84f40d2caad0/96165819282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2500bb4c-df18-4a4f-9afc-8425fa35e789/pl_sql_concat_3_strings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d63ad73a-abd7-41ff-8d1e-5667e194e2e2/91472645755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a42985b3-3670-464b-83cd-6e8960aeb7cd/what_is_bezier_curve_and_its_properties.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f109b070-4dc1-4442-8462-2e731aa676fd/fokerubedajutigiku.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_off0000cf83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF83 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 2e41677bcc015c6c019822f645a3e47dbe641a272ffc7a74df397d2bc8705c29
font_01_sfnt_off0000e106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE106 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 713b647c043b3a319ae72115512192091932e6818559b75c1240143413ba07fb