Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddbb7527539dec80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-03-09 02:42:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: a403317f6c688a5cb506214f69f758cf SHA-1: 5379cc27157f15d5f6fbb462183264dde945a76a SHA-256: ddbb7527539dec80f5b3fb58844acbe69c0fe410db14b4c6d599e1f10c275888
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+sync+soundbar+with+xfinity+remote PDF link annotation
    • http://zizopeja.22web.org/other_forms_of_heart_disease_icd_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drovazvenigorod.ru/61710359142i1oms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinixamaruxibul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653816/mamuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadolelexuzited.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486477/cd904cdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silkhfig.bid/11732595039vx66d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mijuzitomos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662295/wuguxewefesele_gojukutetevawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jukigotisukew.22web.org/do_rivers_flow_northward.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xibixijuli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135399677/e3dc2b135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotozefubineru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576546/redimibivukadifubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxeguzivega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135965209/vewiwularujoxa-pudado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogadai.xyz/bikebukulo7qlv4.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://025b4bf0-2906-4f5f-8a0f-6d4b68fc9518.filesusr.com/ugd/148ee2_cff9848038e24c99a27ec4f564927131.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://234a0c07-d908-4261-bb83-16b3c96a9b04.filesusr.com/ugd/73e0e6_01d1a1f3eb404c2585207860fb5ef5b0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wifexigupokot.epizy.com/5th_grade_math_word_problems_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0bdb67af-4c57-4a6e-9706-714cc80719f5.filesusr.com/ugd/fc840b_7a18725619e541e6afc7788a16fe72b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5e1449e8-5ae4-4a15-bc7a-ee23795bc964.filesusr.com/ugd/3a34a5_13cca37d39614414a89a9c3c721178ff.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE5 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4a074f8977c03ea401c065ee13303f62f84ccc29dc0105d06314876c60a1be
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE63 9856 bytes
SHA-256: 8519e18d607695ed2be55f14ad21345b99cbdbd0add1a17551ae94c0edcfab04
font_02_sfnt_off00011029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11029 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230