Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4b0bcf65edc7af8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-03-22 01:25:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: eff678275d7fd63f8b8f89222b43ecbf SHA-1: 45b96c1be9cb0acd213bc2cf45dbc800dab3044b SHA-256: e4b0bcf65edc7af8962db3334feeeec6e6f61c0624eb638758b4b42d7624c567
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL 'https://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=montgomery+ward+sewing+machine+model+1984' appears to be the primary lure, disguised as a search result.

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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=montgomery+ward+sewing+machine+model+1984 PDF link annotation
    • http://muzamijemuridik.22web.org/do_ps4_turtle_beaches_work_on_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosevud/free_employee_expense_report_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/68e305fc-b68e-42a4-ac90-027302e30dd7/is_samsung_remote_universal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://givaradipokez.epizy.com/rivudekixopariseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d693846-4540-4822-a5ef-eeb408cec6f1/macbeth_movie_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senoburem.epizy.com/13455020019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21a0c015-bc25-4fbb-b183-bcb0d846a4df/85811230186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demaketimazo.rf.gd/ronofanozopejenuvalemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf689505-9d0b-46d2-b958-f9996c7c9918/furasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/012e039f-3ba4-406d-a786-cb59421fd69c/legalubugugexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lofese/wuxutavugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc1a66f5-836d-40e9-8204-2505891cab17/is_aggression_a_sign_of_lying.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8d59741e-369e-44be-b01e-8fbcb09d2d01.filesusr.com/ugd/7cefa9_8047cf7d039841babfebbd7806a958dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31905911-85c7-4254-a23b-0212b246e249/vorixirazewusekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f057d0ca-2353-4b49-b928-d661bc0cc551/kufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxawigituwa.rf.gd/alberto_dell_isola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c15841e-2cc0-4062-8cd8-9e120a2a0cc2/49580534829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cc9e295-2228-4a0f-9643-016e6e534957/mavubadeponimemanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c7d3675-569f-46a2-a92d-2f39dd3dcc14/79664111403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3dd0a079-e646-4268-bbb0-1a762d5c46de/99395062741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24d1f61b-f5c5-4d2f-8180-62589f44e8d8.filesusr.com/ugd/eed56f_c1041951e9c34b2b9639703d8ec11dc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokelur/ahsan_ul_hidaya_free.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_off0000e53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53B 6040 bytes
SHA-256: 497e1467c5d2dd4c03fbed9954c9d8ceb7d6f8eec7676428b334420320087b66
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C8 10668 bytes
SHA-256: ee2a72190d78044259fe8c54dd427e583c5b909415da4fab6ca1e843ae8da2ec