Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e50306de90a90f52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 02:29:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 07237733c8cd99e9cbfa93c8b68adc83 SHA-1: 56926a151930158bbd24002007cc6b3ef9ee318d SHA-256: e50306de90a90f523f860e01b1502b08f198b6d2cca5a4711dade269717f7509
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=chinese+zodiac+sign+compatibility+chart PDF link annotation
    • https://badarezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362380/ebe980497f2c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zadumujiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626950/c8516e09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talonira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134895983/virire_lemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446789/normal_5febbe56eb025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lizoxezubim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776499/9101627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijuwubime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234920/virolamujudanekefave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4379498/normal_60b4dff23ccb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufuroxula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408913/e7649c102fb17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kezugefoluvero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856244/kakapasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://felefejimax.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144619023/how_to_obtain_the_bitlocker_recovery_password_viewer_tool_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demopefo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145126053/gba_rom_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69549e59-859a-45b0-a712-22edd4f3f6bc/coc_private_server_clash_of_clans_apk_download_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d855672-ad58-4da9-b3c4-dc2f4f48680e/a_connecticut_yankee_in_king_arthurs_court_chapter_11_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voveras.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144907437/ib_chemistry_data_booklet_annotated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92463e02-0514-4f53-b88c-852286a2b528/5907316568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf8f47d5-00d0-42c1-9ec9-35c10ee00fa6/pipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tugufumoti.pbworks.com/f/kobomupejufobewokijaxudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef2ff886-3f87-4ad8-9751-bb352e1b85d2/82841981383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eccc3999-105d-4d8c-ab0f-3760be257780/troy_bilt_storm_2410_spark_plug_lowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2fb04be6-20a6-45f3-868a-039eaccc7a7e/how_to_change_fonts_in_roblox_adopt_me_on_pc.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_off000121be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BE 3488 bytes
SHA-256: 12721bcde4f3021ac22a09198df000ef352236dd5f4fcc9bbe8737960132a731
font_01_sfnt_off00012e2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2A 5684 bytes
SHA-256: b374c079c979d26ed0142404905923fe079326736a190c29291765882d6adb8c
font_02_sfnt_off00014157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14157 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 369fa663747c53a53cd0281ecc134d9ead3cafdd82c4142ea9ae755621d4adb6