Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0590a4d0fcebc95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-03 11:15:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 70f0e97dfdc562ffc4234dcd72f82d9c SHA-1: c8cfeff9ddd26dc2408b8db160edb749b5533e0d SHA-256: e0590a4d0fcebc95c37370d5fa84db11e2037a108c1a928da7b2fbbcc71fc36d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm designed to redirect users to various external sites. The document body, though truncated, suggests a lure related to guitar music PDFs, while the embedded URLs and heuristic firings indicate a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, pointing towards a phishing or content-farming scheme.

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.
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=canzoniere+chitarra+facile+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480744/normal_600e38a83d323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386849/normal_606e30f70ef97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380226/normal_605621636172b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417138/normal_5fd76b73cb923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujivopipagafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135321681/4188344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowemaxixedire.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325030/7431831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373241/normal_600351a184b1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepizowa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711999/totujalenusoru-xojiruma-kitone-migezenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402963/normal_5ff86fa01aeb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xelewutoritawi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070131/a608921b40f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368243/normal_5fe8b9abc6250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafufiwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134368649/4514b59b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404980/normal_603a782dac89a.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/ea3ad19d-ccb8-4899-808d-bf02ea29f675/30036799579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d8bb113-f933-4e84-bb93-e3c0c23d2b8b/71944198945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wemilamozede.pbworks.com/f/what_are_the_causes_and_effects_of_drug_abuse_in_health.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xozojonurom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144556329/wiluzalazavorinomili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/756148af-6745-4f3d-91c6-288f12fadbac/sipavujorawewosejaxexugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20098551-7106-4913-baeb-897488598549/nigofezupulajobejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jopamedet.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144450465/tetizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c197b449-9ded-4156-be07-4087157eafe9/58897303060.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_off00012dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFA 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 7a515350cc6f56d2b75706c0c06bf10225d5895237a87e87e01cadf3b844ace8
font_01_sfnt_off00013f14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F14 12724 bytes
SHA-256: 94a85a0f41bff0643efd4430e33b9cfc368eb858a5323727030f9565b72ab714