Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de188dad147c8aba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 06:43:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 52aadc235dbe56dc16f514fe6995bf85 SHA-1: 9ac6e17d84a21c722415ef30d3f710b967662464 SHA-256: de188dad147c8abaa36e6c566b5d69f6621941fc49b81233eaf2ab9f625af540
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, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of malicious redirection or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=ucs+economics+final+exam+study+guide
    • http://lotupojaxuvutix.mygamesonline.org/accu-chek_aviva_connect_blood_glucose_meter.pdf
    • http://mesanezedid.mypressonline.com/fugaraverikamo.pdf
    • http://zitirisiz.mywebcommunity.org/29412474455.pdf
    • https://wakebanimoxebej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383753/6233630.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vabalogu/Jih5dic/63022265845.pdf
    • http://woxuruko.medianewsonline.com/96945904803.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gevopobi/nBv0O5T/jilozukogov.pdf
    • http://keborejozupe.22web.org/5773706882.pdf
    • https://demimawuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135389973/866543.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bemaxopig/jehaLgj/nail_art_designs_metallic.pdf
    • https://pinenovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509314/ganekirolenuvume.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://16fd3b15-5541-4454-9538-28daacbf497e.filesusr.com/ugd/e32576_4a2b11220fd74450a610221f60c1943a.pdf?index=true
    • https://cfecb619-c0f5-418d-ae9d-b1147643389f.filesusr.com/ugd/4cd51e_a9fab998e2b84c0897a2e2dad6d15399.pdf?index=true
    • http://xenadixajasole.rf.gd/que_es_afinidad_electronica.pdf
    • http://kepewitibafef.myartsonline.com/bangladesh_bank_heist.pdf
    • https://ebba3e40-d49f-4cc8-b137-373bb1124918.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_02e76b740a8d49798a9591c71aa2dae0.pdf?index=true
    • http://fixidil.atwebpages.com/tebowefotumolejikunosima.pdf
    • http://pesetunal.onlinewebshop.net/11242687240.pdf
    • http://jitawidavez.atwebpages.com/daily_english_conversation_practice_by_topic.pdf
    • http://faxiruvud.myartsonline.com/bodybuilding_workout_program.pdf
    • https://b1e6e3cd-24a2-426a-8b7d-e8f4bd81915b.filesusr.com/ugd/83e584_dae907368c894632bb0d36d68a843ded.pdf?index=true
    • http://kuxemozoxabonag.onlinewebshop.net/ziwitofatutunasefiz.pdf
    • https://f0198b83-f3fe-41b4-8315-bacd7eabb238.filesusr.com/ugd/2b3f46_049bee17c2ee49d199326a1c537e6c11.pdf?index=true
    • http://nexofemexer.epizy.com/kajegonetizunixe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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8ec13b90d0e00f5fc4b499981fad0346c0bdf3091f2b897086d1f5a74e510334
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12A88 17832 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000f51c.bin
b44dcb7ed879609005ca2a62c73268743818f9b69cd89a3b0d12cbc29389ac77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51C 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010709.bin
c3d0f978187321d41b457bd7559b785ad4aaddfb17f4315eaa8fc13f7e5c1533
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10709 10340 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001456b.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456B 4324 bytes