Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e85342fee20cf98e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-04-14 20:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f27b8664375cd60301967be35a95c573 SHA-1: c42466b76cc4eeadc6d4ffa8c216f984b5250071 SHA-256: e85342fee20cf98eb633a73f544410d808978a4847638fc6ace290e364458f0b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous external URLs, with a primary URL pointing to a search term related to a 'Ge cafe series dual fuel range manual'. This suggests a phishing or SEO-based lure to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=ge+cafe+series+dual+fuel+range+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378606/normal_602f25f6e2a87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444638/normal_602168a1aa13f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487187/normal_5fe338a36e38d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413368/normal_6052b130ceb1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366976/normal_5fd18244b7ce3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowapid.iblogger.org/nuevo_aprender_a_dibujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473892/normal_6019ffa61a1fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xesepoxobij.22web.org/44426686734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuduwoguto.22web.org/world_development_indicators_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407057/normal_5fe8eebcaa70f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475866/normal_600a10f2811e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456377/normal_604346ea2c068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455198/normal_606ce18511ae1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6e00f30c-c2f4-4f8b-b3fa-04142e93d3a6.filesusr.com/ugd/7b3c9f_67e4a6516f8c4b9582e517f6a26c1cf2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a52dd608-e7dd-4d50-8005-e0fd7a3896b4.filesusr.com/ugd/43d2fc_c3cfa9d507ed431aba7fce3fe858037b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/punurum/will_there_be_percy_jackson_3_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wewiro/tupefedukojebepebugakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://13fad4bf-7224-44b3-802b-16842e97d241.filesusr.com/ugd/b14664_0a4be0195d7949a68f213390315b822b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gudukupir/bakatujebokabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b64dd490-e5b9-492f-89ff-e398ecee904c.filesusr.com/ugd/5926b4_cc69be4d41f240399fdb9b5b420f8c8b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vajavugozuw.epizy.com/paxefufesebexokuletota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luwefotikejumu.rf.gd/feranavowigatasevolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c1dc56a-a131-4b43-acff-3635b9115217.filesusr.com/ugd/90423f_8f73e26a0987443abd6ea575c3175e86.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00010cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB9 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 0e01ad07131829e7fd97b8ddc23b2cbb6b5b190e9ec4321c9804f335e77446b1
font_01_sfnt_off00011eef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEF 11184 bytes
SHA-256: aaac737ba2b83cb422c0e6edb073d7795c4f90d84ee1898eef15d1282473fbaa