Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9d52f33d3000432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-03-22 00:32:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: f41fbd1430895c702c696105b0a0d914 SHA-1: eeea310056fd1ae52507d331877341e315ded1a5 SHA-256: e9d52f33d3000432acf5bd199475d500bc41df06fcc24e470532a03d5953e86b
194 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 designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' point towards a campaign to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://jumiwimov.ru/123?utm_term=applicant%2527+s+guide+to+completing+dbs+form PDF link annotation
    • http://lozomaneje.getenjoyment.net/subtraction_with_regrouping_worksheets_4th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dojozafo/b1ibFih/69365589994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodiniwotud/cVyjgid/highway_patrol_accident_reports_ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zezegawutogu/XjahioQ/reverse_story_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pobumepova/hgghgiM/cake_recipe_using_chocolate_chips.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulizukudomiz.scienceontheweb.net/el_bergsonismo_deleuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wowubumopem/jjji4FC/supine_temperament.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorezina/CjfhgIY/rimekuzafexufexatives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bunewonu/hygiidp/ice_cream_truck_song_loop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suzofovolavuk.scienceontheweb.net/44640110010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muxaferamet/cDiaagi/radiohead_creep_ukulele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/kijchgo/visolonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://eda15335-3b41-4752-a6ea-ca28a3d9ec24.filesusr.com/ugd/db55a9_d835e239a7fd405e8b9ccfb77e15f872.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://26c1613e-5d28-4fa3-89cb-3d2c9ab59faf.filesusr.com/ugd/fe83c3_f1a8ca61a07d4e89bad58870bd1c7bb0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://144ece88-722e-4d59-a9d1-ae16887514c2.filesusr.com/ugd/48b17f_6e3e58a3c56f4eceab096a6aa6885222.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aa4de0c4-a7fb-47f6-97fe-5721705e71c1.filesusr.com/ugd/824332_e044260c76f3414d9ade9706cd538da3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://167c8e7b-8160-49a2-a88e-f26749d647c8.filesusr.com/ugd/1ad47d_3ddff19876434189b8694abba8476683.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b0e1d79-1acc-45ba-a965-31015372eee8.filesusr.com/ugd/67f5f7_0369efc208264b6ca1fc8d2c90f58aac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e114ad41-1367-46fe-a5fd-427bf640f69d.filesusr.com/ugd/a63c55_1cd72614e0c745918578fcae185ddfc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kivarutumo.myartsonline.com/barigitelevajavalimeligel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://da18e6a8-d720-42de-a88c-3f13daad7efb.filesusr.com/ugd/08fe48_0287e8c914bb4ed7a03993edc4aca3a9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://03aaa7dd-6608-466c-a68c-f41c59811c05.filesusr.com/ugd/ae15ca_429a906e9e024219a4113eae6566ac47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fad2989-91b8-457c-89bc-9a0e7aeef19f.filesusr.com/ugd/b03ff3_9503702304e54553b0caee160cb69dcf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e61e9f85-32c5-4861-9fd4-b89109084c35.filesusr.com/ugd/2e4eb4_143c6444950a48468019913ae7334b51.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://78bdfa25-736e-4945-a764-db21511aacb9.filesusr.com/ugd/9bd82e_02c23067431041a5aa785a17efd3d8c5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d497f082-4895-42de-a72c-038d9367c8a3.filesusr.com/ugd/8e727b_07a596d9a7524ae796197114d6124e26.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_off00010418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10418 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 602c7b06eb70bd30472ab38d36946f56ce49bc08eedbdd1fbb573dd58941bcdd
font_01_sfnt_off00011739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11739 11104 bytes
SHA-256: d23fe715a23f6d874a61e67c48cfb8c4c20526807e2a0c1e8eb7e4f8a1083abd