Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e767b0be3b8ef1d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-13 22:04:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b0629f1981e7a664bc7efae45c6b4dd8 SHA-1: ddd4e9a848392c2dad5852d5fa9618faa9d5a7b7 SHA-256: e767b0be3b8ef1d50d0ec5a4520a7421a36a96bec0b1957d393a848242c68ad0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a mass external PDF link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV classifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=addition+and+subtraction+of+fractions+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418991/normal_5fca5de843bf1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475863/normal_5ff4a1680b377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410207/normal_5ffcf0597bda0.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/rojalexipokadaz/61893389751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lemefofutomapox/oracle_incentive_compensation_user_guide_r12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ec50ee2-6c76-415b-b731-82d7de26534b.filesusr.com/ugd/826e74_e39f30ad938f42ef9f40be3eb9a2273c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e56e33a1-68a2-4cf3-9dde-cce5203c3490/niluxonebetobajifadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0b70063-3148-4cb4-93be-776948e2dce8/tc_helicon_harmony_singer_2_power_supply.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9505ca4c-dfdc-4941-8fde-ded35496d0c9.filesusr.com/ugd/2097ab_75214e6337634f17a679fc20241d273b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://20996a60-9695-4f45-8fdb-44bdc783da55.filesusr.com/ugd/c57cae_c7a855160c6943af99b635f7bb5bb92e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21fe182b-7bbf-4e3e-8b80-a72311a6abf4/wevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/varolexexus/what_is_mathematical_philosophy_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2500f57a-1b39-496a-9771-59a47cd4dac3/baxitogilagajores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/figugipopar/helpdesk_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59d7e74b-a4e0-481d-9394-6abb72bdcf2f/wufixepewobupelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0793e221-2e7e-4176-aae8-4ff4b75d8f7a.filesusr.com/ugd/64bd79_9eb33f4226f5442aa56064732cf50872.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e72deea9-3c4d-48de-8429-d2e8e2d5d9b3.filesusr.com/ugd/68b2df_7232b7cb8d884b15b6cbf884c38a2ca4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45b0b119-5f8c-43e7-b437-4e12d17c1c81.filesusr.com/ugd/3826db_b846f4382cee4a66b7123aca22e2e35b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1bebfab-c929-49b9-b25e-2768214387dd/21450323800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40785fcd-1e5e-4316-9306-5db1d5795eae.filesusr.com/ugd/2f07a1_d1b7c0798c6b4c93b37f437a249b60c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60335005-fdee-4249-9705-146c8fcb323d/27502320053.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_off0000f484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF484 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 7562eb7e813fc6e158b21dc733736b776878ac9523961f80af89987af9c66edb
font_01_sfnt_off00010742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10742 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c91c7d210b3348a744aa678fdeb72dfdbd84e7d3af744d96b4ddba5394684070