Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb211c422ebbb21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-03-10 12:24:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dd0b7ed73092817d8632f073d85eb5bb SHA-1: 4ee96b8231c4aca91cbf2805192ec454f936a757 SHA-256: ddb211c422ebbb21012df7a5199ff51c277e11dcc581defdaf308207028cdb14
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or SEO spam campaign, as indicated by the presence of a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=aptitude+shortcut+tricks+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481403/normal_6035f058771b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezisivakutuxek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862078/vorasirulubemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newejata.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999860/7172167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupadidaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873798/vedotenufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wezenilokiwuv.iblogger.org/annayya_audio_songs_naa_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454825/normal_5fee18c9b0a5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuberirerumona.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586272/jubiluwobabuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374533/normal_6032a5576d462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446394/normal_604472e7d793f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://ef2e072a-e8a2-4438-804d-cc750be2e2f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6a22cb_7568d77005034842a8f55e758c3e06a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8ed62699-7d02-4439-b935-4286882ef7d4.filesusr.com/ugd/229b11_91fc81879c364eedb49234ef36cb2bdb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://696f1bd8-06c3-47a7-a8f7-e83e17ec8d18.filesusr.com/ugd/5ad03d_de109d5d7f6e4ef9885b9f9f50d84af2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1c79977-f198-4e2d-a5cc-f41f679681e0/zuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98cdd5c5-c43e-49eb-9373-39517e896cbb.filesusr.com/ugd/90661f_1ba8f826c3b547ea843fdfb6a19171d9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://javozajesaretu.epizy.com/blank_cartesian_plane_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2dc5e21-db41-46a1-b416-313ac18f3f52/krav_maga_training_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5df61a2a-9e8f-4bda-bbf9-e0301b189bf4/computer_dummies_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://189c2d36-84ff-4b81-9465-96c33c1d3b91.filesusr.com/ugd/35ddae_6d686a67984d40848447f8761eed3ed2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sikedizu.rf.gd/kitchenaid_ksm150ps_artisan_stand_mixer_5_quart_matte_velvet_blue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64336964-a203-40cc-8b7b-29695f21b432/xafifiwebajizubafupopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb46085c-b0f6-4ed7-a9d8-1fd836433a2c/what_is_the_composition_of_oceanic_crust_and_continental_crust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f62823ea-e863-4eb7-bd7c-e3bac0139ff1.filesusr.com/ugd/8c639a_2b00002aaff648758629473c6027a96c.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D20 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 94752f2d57dbb15f68c417427da4cecf7cdbf4ac7424fb8fc73cb00b0fa0a2ca
font_01_sfnt_off00011f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F16 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 83c9fcfb2d6cfa6b1a1ebc470ed89212066847d48098263925acd57ba9767741
font_02_sfnt_off00014497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14497 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 253d9457cba63a8705f9938e66f3cee7d6a519ae9b1e47d7173f20e1b062f4de
font_03_sfnt_off00015a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A7A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c