Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dece256c27764392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-05-31 12:01:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fbf3cfb11f5819ae955e05f78d216190 SHA-1: 2c30152165c10347a5d2f9fb425d76acac24bc31 SHA-256: dece256c27764392cd03a571ee4ad935f081f7ff2de974260091eac78b0c6319
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO-based phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm. The embedded URL points to a suspicious domain, likely serving as a redirector to a malicious site. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+many+carbs+are+in+a+burger+king+chicken+sandwich PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424982/normal_6005f6de5ae7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401518/normal_5fd34e7a3cc50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370078/normal_5fdb1b20c06b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465012/normal_5ff6909de1e57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426820/normal_603bc342890ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370985/normal_606663c6577fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jojumevowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314985/depodawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4376099/normal_60b3b93b6adf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487641/normal_6018cdd40d4a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4372101/normal_5ff65d5606f53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4428054/normal_60026baf676ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479445/normal_6006a55c10825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478422/normal_602474fa7773d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namovanuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606642/jozafaxuz-vegajojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479222/normal_604a3cc0377fd.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/29743709-c2a5-4960-a7d3-a17888251f8a/qualitative_research_design_an_interactive_approach_maxwell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26aa584e-9494-449d-9aab-dcc58eccda75/mujakonawevoligibined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd7ced24-f064-462b-a774-db9b0f7154e6/how_much_does_brinks_truck_cost_to_repaint.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9d36392-212e-45cb-842e-a06e587c6efa/1994_ford_f350_repair_manual_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06bd2098-cc2c-4b34-99f8-cd686eb6c8aa/60244639429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4e43878-ed44-44e4-91b9-f4c7a6639c52/check_your_computer_specs_windows_7.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_off0000e7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FC 5680 bytes
SHA-256: 33a299f390f940676eff9ce6efe8b85cdd96964b3592a18377658f3c4289d870
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB36 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9088d7ad198b9c7b1d21e42b0561605e2ff9cff1c53cc44a70239de7bbe23e