Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9ab5d45c3c24ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-04-15 11:00:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: f005e16498c5332ffb0ed798eb705231 SHA-1: 707462388945ed433c85d76d6fc97bdae0838d6d SHA-256: de9ab5d45c3c24ca31a91be0ae1c069c5a7b09d7c8f3c379308ff353d959a197
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an MFA/2FA-themed lure and a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+a+schlage PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470552/normal_60385332146c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubatevujonuw.mygamesonline.org/books_on_social_media_marketing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384484/normal_602f7cf04dd58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deladinabixek.sportsontheweb.net/23740831295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417809/normal_60311a5a9337b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380088/normal_6025fc92232ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404723/normal_6050ae918e7de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6131fb9f-3080-406c-a6ab-c4686b6a2f6f.filesusr.com/ugd/52be6f_bd76168b028a484cb5c39ab801e4d09c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/324d44ae-5330-4d41-837d-94fbc81ae848/clark_forklift_tires_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e84f238-d3db-4a8e-98b7-bce3b1fdb2be/20414103104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8bfa24d9-6e70-43c8-b9eb-9b72c32b0b6d/thor_son_of_odin_marvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f53d827-f044-4cd6-bfc4-adde1b8bd016/essentials_of_statistics_for_the_behavioral_sciences_4th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fisulefajow/lajekorazakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/doxifuba/46740026181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jokubamobivavum.onlinewebshop.net/digital_marketing_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugabijenovili/50067901757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1cf095b7-1d29-4152-b82c-7733cf7ba0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/c1de29_1c4119aec76742a5af0d15a634969471.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jaloto/62803903046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8ed7ad90-0d0e-491f-9c15-1f6cd5a61d18.filesusr.com/ugd/f1a804_d41e9a85f0ae4de3932211fcd8d70c94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c9b0c9dc-51ad-46ec-84b2-dbc26df53712.filesusr.com/ugd/b6f588_53b158b2e5c445ff9ac7a1324dc769ac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mexavofezoxi/xonirasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3633ae4e-9acc-45df-885e-1bfa1481cb44.filesusr.com/ugd/e73054_7bac613e29c3409a9dbade7c917847f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6286d54-05d6-4185-95ca-18da596430a9/graco_swing_broke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zogosugo.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_speak_american_english_fluently.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc15ecfc-f69f-44ee-9940-4513e4548941/lolagiwo.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_off0000e971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE971 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 640b1ccf1bf18369dbd295e97a6e0e66b778d1eb56cd1a1a6065daf5a74ba30b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE2 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 494c171a51a7158b15bfa01526874de3a64de3941a69ec7f71389ac6d343f744