Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd547bd4e87bcd3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-05-06 21:02:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1b5502294da0de23b9f11144d8d3d115 SHA-1: 2770fe609784f1f3f401f79c3c0605905077e0ee SHA-256: dd547bd4e87bcd3bc00f83b60bc5d80899debff3f952c4c23d6ff5ca0a5b2c49
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, including ClamAV flagging it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, with the primary lure being "color theory wheel interactive". The presence of a large number of external links hosted on disposable domains suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for phishing purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=color+theory+wheel+interactive PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letijefa/gNWc6ij/jatasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wifevotus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897576/kakexofamul-wurezewoxari-dutolereti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezivabuja/fhhQhii/96647637073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorezorejadij.iblogger.org/25613176013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuwanitawoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134436239/d0ea5c9852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuburobu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633580/zinukefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janogawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776821/414954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tawunipufop/8hanO5t/kovuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wujukipako/mhjjiax/posusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reponobokuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135401207/9488992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuzetuzame/pYSidgh/ruruvutetale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/givogaduta/ieih0he/five_nights_at_freddy_s_2020_game.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/d83883de-ae42-4f22-8d9d-04b868961b32/37155105569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajodojizofe.epizy.com/sewowufafujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03bcca5f-787f-40c0-bc6e-dd24d5152d67/how_to_get_prior_authorization_for_unitedhealthcare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd4e69e1-ad30-4b61-809c-60cbf6e5e119/carvel_ice_cream_calorie_count.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://03aaa7dd-6608-466c-a68c-f41c59811c05.filesusr.com/ugd/ae15ca_cf4c4b574fcc42578fb51ad8336cdba6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44dd6259-7513-41c7-b2f1-b2b1fc385d2e.filesusr.com/ugd/63022f_98302c584437417480acfac042e823d9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b999db6-9893-49dc-8ecb-ba92f58bd190/19571177750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e5d944d-7ede-48a2-bc38-d98d6db05ee6/soxogukupe.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_off00011fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB4 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 18701bec4b22bdeb9825edeb95f611975931f95928364903ad15f5ed8d9b75da
font_01_sfnt_off00013052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13052 11172 bytes
SHA-256: fb1d330c1b2f61aab96ff8ac952c3f972cd62051651e876e0c9e8917cfe97ac3