Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df299aa9e1e37a97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-05-26 08:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b922821684a800e85389a0881361d3e8 SHA-1: 7b8f49c2ae8e3c65c524bf17ddb02339d1379520 SHA-256: df299aa9e1e37a97bdf4a01b51ca9903da412e6cf1381e2db073d35d70c4d107
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=free+printable+monthly+income%252Fexpense+sheet PDF link annotation
    • https://tunopukiku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134775633/vajupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabedowilopore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163579/wetafuveliwubizatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamijiruwidezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134387945/b1f2cb2ca92473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefikugozakilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/3856877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fefoxotavom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135328849/kenajotone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losewilim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854933/xatumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zugufirit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163535/vinudapepogutit-warafi-povilelezize-mumozekedokutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nozubewow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164313/nikezufexute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niwurepezexeted.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312419/0b7bf28a94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zobojosapez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483592/2527690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jugotazotezolut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135973864/bb39e7e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanevowak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465130/fuwisoluzewabemaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nizomepovunamox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305669/menak.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://s3.amazonaws.com/vapite/clt_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90aec336-ac8a-4925-aca1-10010d1b578e/ios_emoji_for_android_xda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6713de9a-e025-4a7b-bad6-5ac9613b344f/xesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4abc7a6e-2e8c-4088-bd46-fe94eb57192a/jararuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jozaponi/kofemedimeziteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixedujegibex/gozazokonotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/08ef0854-61e5-481a-b7ff-7afe348deeab/introductory_econometrics_wooldridge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c046e85d-4c91-44c5-96fd-3a79c6ad88df/67908864800.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFB 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc194d03f50b41ddbdd4a86eeec15d2092662359e707e2dbb5755384d88131e
font_01_sfnt_off00011eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAC 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 48039bd0d3d52f6090333b5dbbbd3b494f18b98919d023fe6b51fb48ff803289
font_02_sfnt_off0001450b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1450B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e